US Patent Issued to SUBARU on June 3 for "Driving assistance apparatus for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,290, issued on June 3, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Katsuyuki Umezawa (Tokyo), Hiroaki Kuramochi (Tokyo), Satoshi Nakano (Tokyo), Masashi Okano (Tokyo), Shuhei Dairokuno (Tokyo), Motohiro Hidaka (Tokyo) and Tatsuro Suzuki (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 that acquires environment information in front of the vehicle; a target route setter that sets a target route; and a controller that causes the vehicle to travel along the target route. The controller includes: an interse...