ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,299, issued on April 14, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle drive assist apparatus" was invented by Hitoshi Niwa (Tokyo) and Kentaro Nozu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle drive assist apparatus for a vehicle includes: a forward environment recognition device configured to acquire forward environment information of the vehicle; a lateral environment recognition device configured to acquire lateral environment information of the vehicle; an alarm device configured to alert a driver who drives the vehicle through at least an alarm or a warning display; and a control unit configured to receive surrounding envi...