US Patent Issued to SUBARU on June 30 for "Driver assistance apparatus for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,253, issued on June 30, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driver assistance apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Shuu Ogino (Tokyo) and Yuya Innami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assistance apparatus for a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission as a transmission includes a recognizer, a first processor, a first determiner, a second determiner, and a standby unit. The recognizer recognizes information on a traveling environment outside the vehicle. The first processor executes driver assistance control, based on the traveling environment information. The driver assistance control includes contact avoidance ...