US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Sept. 30 for "Traveling control apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,976, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Traveling control apparatus" was invented by Tsubasa Aoyama (Tokyo) and Yoshiyuki Igarashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling control apparatus includes an obstacle detection unit, a detour determination unit, first and second on-road parking determination unit, first and second target lateral position determination units, and a traveling control processor. When an obstacle is highly likely or likely to be a second vehicle parked on the road, the first target lateral position determination unit determines a first target lateral position. When the obstacle...