ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,467, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Traveling control apparatus" was invented by Noriaki Taguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling control apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes at least one processor that is configured to function as a driving assistance controller. In a case where a preceding vehicle traveling ahead of the vehicle changes from a pre-switching preceding vehicle to a post-switching preceding vehicle, the driving assistance controller is configured to set a control target point in such a way that an object to be tracked is switched stepwise from the pre-switching prece...