ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,287, issued on June 3, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Travel control apparatus" was invented by Yuki Kadoya (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel control apparatus to be mounted on a vehicle includes a computer device configured to perform control to cause the vehicle to travel at a set constant vehicle speed or to cause the vehicle to travel following the preceding vehicle. The computer device includes a determination unit and a target acceleration rate setting unit. The determination unit is configured to, before turn steering is started, determine whether it is a turn opportunity for the vehicle to make a first dir...