ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,509, issued on June 2, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Controller and control method" was invented by Akira Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To properly improve safety of a straddle-type vehicle.The controller includes a determination unit and an execution unit. The determination unit (63) determines, based on at least one of a first master cylinder pressure and a second master cylinder pressure, whether a braking operation is performed. The execution unit executes a driving support mode, in which a braking force generated in a straddle-type vehicle is amplified, when the determination unit...