ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,665, issued on May 12, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Drive assist apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Marumo (Tokyo), Fumiya Sato (Tokyo), Mika Suzuki (Tokyo) and Tomohiro Abe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive assist apparatus configured to set a drive condition of a vehicle based on a risk map generated by giving a risk potential to a risk object that is present around the vehicle, includes one or more processors and one or more memories connected to the one or more processors to be able to communicate with the one or more processors. The one or more processors is configured to execute a process including: obtainin...