ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,035, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle traveling control apparatus" was invented by Reo Harada (Tokyo), Hiroaki Kuramochi (Tokyo), Seiya Sato (Tokyo), Hiroki Maniwa (Tokyo), Wataru Munemura (Tokyo), Shigeki Mukai (Tokyo) and Kazuyuki Takahashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surrounding environment around a vehicle is recognized and surrounding environment information is acquired. Traveling control is performed on the vehicle based on the acquired surrounding environment information. When an obstacle expected to hinder traveling of the vehicle is recognized ahead of the vehicle and other vehicl...