ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,036, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle drive assist apparatus" was invented by Seiya Sato (Tokyo), Reo Harada (Tokyo), Hiroaki Kuramochi (Tokyo), Hiroki Maniwa (Tokyo), Wataru Munemura (Tokyo), Kazuyuki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Shigeki Mukai (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 vehicle drive assist apparatus includes an object recognizer, a risk area setter, and a risk level setter. The object recognizer is configured to recognize an object in front of the vehicle. The risk area setter is configured to, when small objects are around the ...