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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,369, issued on July 14, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Motohiro Hidaka (Tokyo), Katsuyuki Umezawa (Tokyo), Hiroaki Kuramochi (Tokyo), Satoshi Nakano (Tokyo), Shuhei Dairokuno (Tokyo), Tatsuro Suzuki (Tokyo) and Masashi Okano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus for a vehicle includes an environment information acquisitor, a vehicle position estimator, a target route setter, and a controller. The environment information acquisitor acquires environment information in front of the vehicle. The vehicle position estimator estimates a position...