US Patent Issued to SUBARU on April 14 for "Vehicle navigation apparatus and vehicle navigation system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,601, issued on April 14, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle navigation apparatus and vehicle navigation system" was invented by Yuina Hori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle navigation apparatus includes an apparatus-side map storage, a driver characteristic information storage, a communicator, a route searching unit, and a coincidence determination unit. The communicator transmits driving operation characteristic information of a driver to a mobile terminal, and receives, from the mobile terminal, recommended route information retrieved based on the driving operation characteristic information of the driver...