ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,741, issued on March 31, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Drive assist apparatus for vehicle and drive assist system for vehicle" was invented by Takuya Iwase (Tokyo), Kazuaki Ueda (Tokyo), Shingo Ugajin (Tokyo), Toshihiro Hayashi (Tokyo), Kazuo Nomoto (Tokyo), Hiroto Kobayashi (Tokyo), Takumi Funabashi (Tokyo) and Kenta Someya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive assist apparatus for a vehicle includes one or more processors configured to: obtain a risk degree calculated for an oncoming moving body moving with a velocity component in a direction opposite to a traveling direction of the vehicle in the oncoming moving ...