US Patent Issued to SUBARU on July 14 for "Driver assistance apparatus for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,373, issued on July 14, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driver assistance apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Kazuaki Ueda (Tokyo), Shingo Ugajin (Tokyo), Hiroto Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Toshihiro Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assistance apparatus includes an environment information acquisition unit and an overtaking control processor. The environment information acquisition unit acquires a traveling environment information of an own vehicle. The overtaking control processor executes overtaking control based on relative vehicle speeds and positional relations of the own vehicle with a preceding vehicle...