US Patent Issued to SUBARU on June 23 for "Drive assist apparatus for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,120, issued on June 23, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Drive assist apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Taiki Sugiyama (Tokyo), Yuichiro Tsukasaki (Tokyo), Yasushi Takaso (Tokyo) and Kouki Takayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive assist apparatus for a vehicle includes: a driving environment recognizer recognizing driving environment information on outside of the vehicle; a target vehicle-to-vehicle distance setter setting a target preceding vehicle distance to a preceding vehicle; and a driving controller performing driving control for maintaining a preceding vehicle distance at the target preceding vehicle ...