ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,431, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"In-vehicle apparatus" was invented by Junichi Motoyama (Tokyo), Yuto Aoki (Tokyo), Tsukasa Mikuni (Tokyo) and Ryota Nakamura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes a navigator, an area information extractor that extracts data on a communication difficulty area, a battery residual capacity monitor that monitors a traveling battery residual capacity, a traveling mode selector that receives a selected traveling mode, a travel information manager that determines a communication state in a traveling direction of the ve...