ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,166, issued on May 19, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle drive assist apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories. The one or more memories are communicably coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to acquire road condition information of a road where a vehicle is traveling, drive skill information of a driver who drives the vehicle, and drive assist necessity information of the veh...