ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,428, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Driving assist apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Keisuke Motegi (Tokyo), Hikaru Yoshikawa (Tokyo), Masahito Sekine (Tokyo), Yuta Sato (Tokyo) and Ryuya Azuma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assist apparatus for a vehicle includes a camera device, a radar device, an image recognition unit, and a driving control unit. The camera device obtains images around the vehicle. The radar device obtains three-dimensional object data around the vehicle. The image recognition unit recognizes a marking line and a road edge and calculates a distance therebetween fro...