ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,848, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle information notification device" was invented by Shunichi Nakabayashi (Tokyo), Masato Nakata (Tokyo), Akihiko Tomoda (Tokyo) and Ko Hosokawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This vehicle information notification device includes: a pair of left and right grips which are formed on a steering handle; and a vibration device (which is disposed on at least one of the pair of left and right grips to notify a driver of predetermined information, wherein a plurality of the vibration devices are provided on one of the left and right grips. Both of the pair of ...