ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,084, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Controller and control method" was invented by Naoyuki Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method capable of improving operability of a motorcycle. In a controller and the control method according to the present invention, an execution section of the controller executes holding control for braking and holding a motorcycle without relying on a brake operation by a rider of the motorcycle at a stop of the motorcycle. The execution section switches a cancellation condition of the holding control between a first condition, unde...