Fuji Heavy Industries U.S.A., Inc. (styled "Fuji Heavy Industries USA, Inc."; abbreviated FUSA) was the North American holding/affiliate entity of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (FHI) of Tokyo, the Japanese manufacturer of Subaru automobiles. It was a wholly owned FHI subsidiary and was renamed North American Subaru Inc. effective April 1, 2017 — the same date FHI itself became Subaru Corporation, a Tokyo-listed parent (Subaru Corporation news release, Mar. 31, 2017). Separate revenue, headcount and financials for FUSA are not publicly disclosed; it appears in U.S. regulatory correspondence as the group's stateside representative (e.g., NHTSA filings signed by FUSA's Director, Government Relations).
Operations. FUSA is not a manufacturer in its own right. It sits above the group's U.S. operating companies, principally Subaru of America, Inc. (Cherry Hill/Camden, N.J.), which markets and distributes Subaru vehicles, parts and accessories through its dealer network, and Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. (Lafayette, Ind.), the group's U.S. assembly plant (Subaru/FHI press materials).
Litigation posture. The tracked data show 0 cases as plaintiff and 1 as defendant — the profile of an operating company being sued, not a patent-asserting entity. There is no evidence of FUSA initiating patent litigation.
Notable case. In Automotive Technologies International, Inc. v. Delphi Corp. et al., consolidated Nos. 08-cv-11048 and 10-cv-10647 (E.D. Mich., Judge Robert H. Cleland), FUSA was named a defendant alongside Delphi, General Motors, Ford, Volvo, Nissan, Hyundai and Mercedes-Benz. ATI — a patent-holding company founded by inventor David S. Breed, listed in the Stanford NPE Litigation Database as "individual-inventor-started" — asserted patents (the '945, '516, '080, '029, '100 and '824 patents) covering occupant weight/position sensing and airbag-deployment control, citing occupant-sensing systems in vehicles such as the 2007 Subaru Forester using Delphi-supplied components. The suit was filed in E.D. Mich. (ATI's home district), not a plaintiff-friendly Texas venue. The district court granted summary judgment of invalidity on several asserted patents in 2011 (776 F. Supp. 2d 469), and the Federal Circuit remanded the appeal in 2012. ATI later assigned patents to American Vehicular Sciences LLC, another automotive NPE.