ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,832, issued on June 24, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Driving assistance apparatus" was invented by Hikaru Yoshikawa (Tokyo), Masahito Sekine (Tokyo), Yuta Sato (Tokyo), Ryuya Azuma (Tokyo), Keisuke Motegi (Tokyo) and Yu Hasegawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus includes an outside recognition device, a locator unit, and a driving control unit. The outside recognition device is configured to acquire traffic environment information around the vehicle. The locator unit is configured to store road map information and detect a position of the vehicle based on a positioning signal. The driving ...