ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,510, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle control apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Ando (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle control apparatus is to be applied to a vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus includes one or more processors. The one or more processors configured to function as a target object detector, a road state detector, a speed calculator, and a braking controller. The target object detector is configured to detect a target object in front of the vehicle. The road state detector is configured to detect a road state of a road in front of the vehicle. The speed calculator is confi...