ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,597, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driver assistance system, vehicle, recording medium containing computer program, and driver assistance method" was invented by Shumpei Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Takato Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application is to provide a driver assistance system, etc. that makes it possible to reduce a risk in consideration of a blind spot region formed by an obstacle and appropriately provide driver assistance in, for example, automated driving of a vehicle. In particular, upon detecting the presence of a blind spot region together with an obstacle, a vehicle control sys...