US Patent Issued to SUBARU on June 16 for "In-vehicle apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,135, issued on June 16, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"In-vehicle apparatus" was invented by Yuto Aoki (Tokyo), Junichi Motoyama (Tokyo), Tsukasa Mikuni (Tokyo) and Ryota Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-vehicle apparatus includes a navigator, an area information extractor, a determiner, a notifier, a travel information obtainer, and a necessary time calculator. The navigator guides a vehicle in accordance with data on a traveling route. The area information extractor extracts a communication difficulty area and a restricted area from the data on the traveling route. The determiner determines whether the r...