US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Feb. 3 for "Automatic brake control apparatus, automatic brake control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,846, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automatic brake control apparatus, automatic brake control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Yuna Akiyama (Tokyo), Koichi Mizutani (Tokyo), Masayoshi Koiji (Tokyo), Yusuke Hamada (Tokyo), Kazuki Muto (Tokyo) and Tsubasa Takase (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic brake control apparatus to be applied to a vehicle is configured to: detect, with an ultrasonic sensor, a position of an obstacle on reverse travel of the vehicle, in which the ultrasonic sensor is disposed in a rear part of the vehicle; set a brake operati...