ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,045, issued on July 29, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Driving assistance apparatus" was invented by Kyosuke Hirazumi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus to be mounted on a vehicle includes an outwardly headed state detection unit, a target accelerator operation amount setting unit, and an information presentation unit. The outwardly headed state detection unit makes a detection of an outwardly headed state in which the vehicle is cornering with a yaw rate and a slip angle of a vehicle body having a same sign. The target accelerator operation amount setting unit sets, in response to the detect...