ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,471, issued on March 24, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle driving support apparatus" was invented by Hiroaki Kuramochi (Tokyo), Satoshi Nakano (Tokyo), Masashi Okano (Tokyo), Shuhei Dairokuno (Tokyo), Motohiro Hidaka (Tokyo), Tatsuro Suzuki (Tokyo) and Katsuyuki Umezawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle driving support apparatus includes a forward environment recognizing device configured to recognize a traveling environment forward of a vehicle, a control device configured to perform adaptive cruise control and active lane keep centering control based on the recognized traveling environment, an electric ...