US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Oct. 20 for "Vehicle drive assist apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,955, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle drive assist apparatus" was invented by Shinya Kudo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle drive assist apparatus includes: an external environment recognizer; a vehicle-speed adjustment switch that adjusts a set vehicle speed for constant-speed travel control; and a vehicle speed controller that increases or decreases the set vehicle speed by a unit vehicle speed every time the switch is tapped, calculates a target acceleration rate based on a basic acceleration characteristic, and adjusts a vehicle speed to the set vehicle speed by using the target acce...