ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,101, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Traveling control apparatus" was invented by Akinori Nakamura (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Nagao (Tokyo), Tatsuya Suto (Tokyo) and Koki Matsumoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling control apparatus includes a speed control processor, first and second brake command detectors, a brake control processor, and an operational state setting unit. The speed control processor controls a vehicle speed to cause a vehicle to travel at a target speed, and is switchable between an active operational state and an inactive operational state. The first brake command detector detects...