ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,959, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Driver assistance apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Harunobu Horiguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assistance apparatus for a vehicle includes a determiner, an estimator, a detector, and a deceleration rate setter. The determiner determines whether the vehicle is slipping in vehicle speed control involving acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle. The estimator estimates a road surface frictional coefficient at a location where the vehicle starts slipping as a first road surface frictional coefficient. The detector detects a high frictional coef...