ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,158, issued on April 21, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle drive assist apparatus" was invented by Reo Harada (Tokyo), Seiya Sato (Tokyo), Hiroaki Kuramochi (Tokyo), Hiroki Maniwa (Tokyo), Wataru Munemura (Tokyo), Shigeki Mukai (Tokyo) and Kazuyuki Takahashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle drive assist apparatus is to be applied to a vehicle. The apparatus includes an object recognizer, a risk area setter, a risk level setter, a route candidate setter, a route evaluation value calculator, and a vehicle travel route setter. The object recognizer recognizes an object in front of the vehicle. The risk area ...