US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Sept. 8 for "Preceding vehicle recognition device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,413, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Preceding vehicle recognition device for vehicle" was invented by Masatoshi Minakawa (Tokyo), Hayato Hori (Tokyo) and Tetsuo Shiraishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preceding vehicle recognition device for a vehicle includes a driving environment recognition unit, a lane change determination unit, a preceding vehicle provisional registration unit, and a provisional registration cancellation unit. The driving environment recognition unit recognizes information about a driving environment including one or more lanes and vehicles on a road. The lane change determin...