ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,123, issued on June 23, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Control device and control method of rider assistance system" was invented by Lars Pfau (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is to obtain a control device and a control method capable of assisting group driving of a motorcycle. A control device of a rider assistance system includes a vehicle speed control execution section executing a vehicle speed control operation of an own-vehicle (100), on the basis of positional relationship information between the own-vehicle (100) and at least one preceding vehicle (300) that is acquired w...