ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,421, issued on May 5, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driver assistance system and driver assistance processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Ikuo Goto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver assistance system configured to assist in driving vehicles includes a collected data storage and a processor. The processor is configured to calculate a first load state value with a change in driving behavior of a driver of an assistance target vehicle and a second load state value without the change, based on vehicle measurement data and passer-by measurement data, and calculates a total optimization evaluation valu...