ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,888, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Travel control apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Takuya Iwase (Tokyo), Kazuaki Ueda (Tokyo), Shingo Ugajin (Tokyo), Toshihiro Hayashi (Tokyo), Kazuo Nomoto (Tokyo), Hiroto Kobayashi (Tokyo), Takumi Funabashi (Tokyo) and Kenta Someya (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel control apparatus for a vehicle includes a surrounding environment recognition device, a collision time calculator, a collision object estimator, and an after-collision travel range estimator. The surrounding environment recognition device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surroun...