US Patent Issued to SUBARU on April 15 for "Vehicle drive assist apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,398, issued on April 15, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle drive assist apparatus" was invented by Hiroaki Kuramochi (Tokyo), Shota Yasuda (Tokyo), Shigeki Mukai (Tokyo), Kazuyuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Wataru Munemura (Tokyo), Seiya Sato (Tokyo) and Hiroki Maniwa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surrounding environment recognition device recognizes a surrounding environment around a vehicle. A traveling control unit centrally controls a whole of the entire vehicle. An obstacle presumer presumes presence of an obstacle ahead of the vehicle based on a behavior distribution of preceding vehicles recognized by the surroun...