US Patent Issued to SUBARU on April 22 for "Driving assist device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,769, issued on April 22, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driving assist device" was invented by Takahiro Furuya (Tokyo), Hideki Sugawara (Tokyo), Anfen Ye (Tokyo), Kazuki Yamaguchi (Tokyo), Wataru Matsudate (Tokyo), Hayato Hori (Tokyo) and Takayuki Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assist device includes a driving assist controller. The driving assist controller is configured to perform driving assistance when the vehicle changes a course by crossing the oncoming lane. The driving assist controller sets a predicted travel region based on behavior of the oncoming vehicle when the oncoming vehicle is approachin...