ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,216, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle" was invented by Tatsuya Suto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether a vehicle traveling speed is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold speed, when the processor receives, while a vehicle travels in a normal traveling mode, a switching instruction. The processor is configured to refrain from switching a vehicle traveling mode to a rough road traveling mode and make a switching reservation of switching the vehicle traveling mode to the rough road traveling mode, when the pro...