ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,130, issued on May 19, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Autonomous brake control due to changes in environmental conditions" was invented by Koki Matsumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle travel control device includes a surrounding environment recognition device that acquires surrounding environment information on a surrounding environment of a vehicle; a vehicle state recognition device that acquires state information on a state of the vehicle; and a travel control unit that performs travel control of the vehicle, based on the surrounding environment information or the state information. When the vehicle state ...