ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,542, issued on May 12, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data processing apparatus and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Takeru Shinohara (Tokyo) and Hajime Oyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus includes one or more processors, and one or more recording media including a program to be executed by the one or more processors stored therein. The program includes one or more commands that cause the one or more processors to execute: a simulation process of performing, based on driving operation data of a vehicle, a simulation of a vehicle behavior of the vehicle using vehicle models ha...