ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,011, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Traveling control system for vehicles" was invented by Hajime Oyama (Tokyo), Masato Mizoguchi (Tokyo), Ryosuke Namba (Tokyo), Hiroaki Kawamura (Tokyo), Norikazu Ebisawa (Tokyo), Kengo Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Masaru Nakanishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travelling control system includes a plurality of vehicles each including a controller, a server including a generator configured to generate a travelling control information for the plurality of vehicles, a predictor configured to predict a merging interference between a first vehicle travelling from a merging ro...