ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,033, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Travel control apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Hiroto Kobayashi (Tokyo), Takuya Iwase (Tokyo), Kazuaki Ueda (Tokyo), Toshihiro Hayashi (Tokyo), Shingo Ugajin (Tokyo), Kazuo Nomoto (Tokyo), Kenta Someya (Tokyo) and Takumi Funabashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A travel control apparatus for a vehicle includes a surrounding environment recognition device, a collision time calculator, a collision object estimator, an after-collision travel range estimator, a collision detector, and a travel control unit. The surrounding environment recognition device includes...