US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Sept. 29 for "Traveling control apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,920, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Traveling control apparatus" was invented by Hayato Hori (Tokyo) and Syohei Yokouchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traveling control apparatus includes a computer device. The computer device performs control that causes a first vehicle to travel at a set constant vehicle speed or to travel following a second vehicle traveling in front of the first vehicle. The computer device includes a control target setting unit and a following control unit. The control target setting unit performs a determination of conformity between a third vehicle detected on a merging l...