ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,004, issued on July 29, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driving/braking force control apparatus" was invented by Koji Matsuno (Tokyo) and Takeshi Yoneda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving/braking force control apparatus includes a front-wheel longitudinal force generator, a rear-wheel longitudinal force generator, a tire slip angle output unit, a tire lateral force output unit, a slip ratio output unit, a tire lateral force change rate output unit, a target yaw moment setting unit, and a driving/braking force distribution control unit. The driving/braking force distribution control unit performs a control of an ou...