US Patent Issued to SUBARU on April 21 for "Driver assistance apparatus, driver assistance processing method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,217, issued on April 21, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driver assistance apparatus, driver assistance processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Ikuo Goto (Tokyo) and Shunsuke Tezuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assistance apparatus sets a rule deviation risk indicating a risk of deviation of a vehicle from a traffic rule related to travel of the vehicle for an object of the traffic rule, in accordance with one or both of an intensity of the traffic rule and an application time zone of the traffic rule, and sets a rule deviation allowable risk indicating a travel allowable area of the vehicle...