ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,809, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driving assistance apparatus and recording medium" was invented by Noeru Sato (Tokyo) and Ryuichi Sumikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance apparatus that alerts a driver based on a difficulty of driving includes an effect level storage that records a degree of an effect that stabilizes a vehicle body behavior while the driver is driving by executing a sound effect output process of outputting a sound effect based on the vehicle body behavior. The apparatus executes a difficulty determination process of determining the difficulty of driving for eac...