US Patent Issued to SUBARU on April 22 for "Driving takeover control apparatus implemented based on measured driver alertness level" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,804, issued on April 22, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driving takeover control apparatus implemented based on measured driver alertness level" was invented by Takuya Homma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving takeover control apparatus is equipped in a vehicle capable of travelling by automated driving and controls a driving takeover operation at a transition from high automated driving to low automated driving. The apparatus includes a driver operation device, a vehicle driving device, an alertness detecting device, a computation control device, and an output limiting device. A driver operates the driver operatio...