ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,877, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle travel assistance apparatus" was invented by Shigeru Honda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle travel assistance apparatus includes a traveling environment information acquiring unit, a preceding vehicle recognizing unit, a vehicle shadow detector, a front vehicle shadow determining unit, and a second preceding vehicle estimating unit. The vehicle shadow detector detects a vehicle shadow of a train of vehicles including a first vehicle shadow of a first preceding vehicle recognized by the preceding vehicle recognizing unit and a front vehicle shadow of...