US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Dec. 30 for "Driver assistance apparatus, vehicle, recording medium storing computer program, and driver assistance method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,069, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driver assistance apparatus, vehicle, recording medium storing computer program, and driver assistance method" was invented by Daiki Shiwa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control system is a system configured to appropriately perform driver assistance such as automatic driving of a vehicle, while reducing risks considering blind spot areas formed by obstacles. In particular, the vehicle control system is configured to set a virtual risk integrated with latent risks generated individually in order to prevent an abrupt change in speed or the like of the own ...