ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,543, issued on June 2, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance control device" was invented by Tsubasa Nose (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a driving assistance control device for a saddle-riding vehicle, the device having: an inter-vehicle distance acquiring unit that acquires the inter-vehicle distance in the vehicle width direction between the own vehicle and a parallel traveling vehicle that is another saddle-riding vehicle traveling parallel in a lane that is the same lane in which the own vehicle is traveling; a road condition acquiring unit that acquires a condition of the road on whi...