ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,500, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle drive assist apparatus" was invented by Wataru Munemura (Tokyo), Shota Yasuda (Tokyo), Shigeki Mukai (Tokyo), Kazuyuki Takahashi (Tokyo), Hiroaki Kuramochi (Tokyo), Seiya Sato (Tokyo) and Hiroki Maniwa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle drive assist apparatus for avoiding collision of a vehicle with a recognized object recognizes a surrounding environment around the vehicle; acquires feature information of a three-dimensional object in the surrounding environment; sets a traveling path of the vehicle based on the surrounding environment; recognizes an a...