US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Dec. 16 for "Driving assistance apparatus, driving assistance method, and non-transitory recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,037, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance apparatus, driving assistance method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Kazuya Kozono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus is configured to control a contact avoidance operation of avoiding contact between a first vehicle to which the driving assistance apparatus is to be applied and a second vehicle. The driving assistance apparatus includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: make a prediction of a position of the second vehicle at a determination time as a determ...