ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,239, issued on July 1, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Shuu Ogino (Tokyo) and Kazuya Kozono (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus includes one or more processors that execute a braking delay process and a stopping control process. The braking delay process is related to contact avoidance in which a recognized road-side object is set to a target object, and is a process of performing a control of delaying intervention by braking in a case where the contact avoidance using steering is predicted to be possible, as compared with a case where the contact avoidanc...