ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,608, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle detection information sharing system" was invented by Masaaki Harada (Tokyo), Hisataro Iinami (Tokyo) and Ayaka Ohki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle detection information sharing system includes a detection information acquiring unit, a vehicle information acquiring unit, a risk degree calculator, and an information transmitter. The detection information acquiring unit is configured to acquire detection information on an obstacle detected by a first vehicle traveling on a road. The vehicle information acquiring unit is configured to acquire vehicle i...