US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Feb. 24 for "Safe driving assist device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,103, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Safe driving assist device" was invented by Yasushi Takaso (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safe driving assist device for a vehicle includes an inter-vehicle distance detector, a preceding vehicle speed detector, a preceding vehicle deceleration detector, an assumed deceleration calculator, and a vehicle controller. The inter-vehicle distance detector detects an inter-vehicle distance between the vehicle and a preceding vehicle traveling ahead of the vehicle. The preceding vehicle speed detector detects a traveling speed of the preceding vehicle. The preceding veh...