ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,320, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Traveling control apparatus" was invented by Yoshiyuki Igarashi (Tokyo) and Tsubasa Aoyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel control apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes a passability determination unit and a travel control unit. The passability determination unit performs a determination as to whether or not an obstacle located on a vehicle lane on which the vehicle travels is avoidable within the vehicle lane on which the vehicle is currently traveling. The travel control unit carries out a travel control to allow the vehicle to travel while avoidi...