ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,701, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle travel control apparatus" was invented by Akihiro Watanabe (Tokyo), Shinya Katakai (Tokyo), Atsushi Imai (Tokyo) and Kazumasa Fukuchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle travel control apparatus includes an outside recognition device, a traveling environment recognition section, a steering control unit, and an engine control unit. The outside recognition device acquires traveling-environment image data that is image data of a traveling environment in front of an own vehicle that is applied with the apparatus. The traveling environment recognition section...