ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,700, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Traveling control apparatus" was invented by Hiroto Kobayashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling control apparatus includes a computer device configured to perform control that causes a first vehicle to travel at a set constant vehicle speed or to travel following a second vehicle traveling in front of the first vehicle. The computer device is configured to set a third vehicle traveling on a merging lane merging with a traveling lane of the first vehicle and having an intention to enter a traveling lane of the first vehicle as a target to follow, and, when th...