ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,190, issued on April 22, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driver assistance apparatus and recording medium containing computer program" was invented by Yosuke Takebayashi (Tokyo), Yu Yoshida (Tokyo), Riku Kato (Tokyo), Hideyuki Takao (Tokyo) and Ryuichi Sumikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assistance apparatus is configured to carry out processing including: detecting a moving body and surrounding environment around the vehicle; predicting driving actions of the moving body detected; calculating collision risks between the moving body and the vehicle after a predetermined period of time, for the respective dri...