ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,603, issued on May 19, was assigned to Horizon Hobby LLC (Champaign, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for controlling a radio-controlled two-wheeled vehicle" was invented by John Adams (Champaign, Ill.) and Matthew W. Olson (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio-controlled (RC) motorcycle is disclosed with a chassis, a rear wheel, and a steerable front wheel assembly. The motorcycle includes an attitude estimator that uses rotation and acceleration data from an IMU to estimate an inertial attitude of the motorcycle. A receiver is connected to a control processor and receives a steering input from an RC transmitter. The con...