ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,415, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Parking exit assistance apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Kiyokawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking exit assistance apparatus according to an embodiment includes an obstacle detection unit that detects an obstacle around a host vehicle, a path calculation unit that calculates, on the basis of a result of detecting the obstacle, a parking exit path along which the host vehicle travels when exiting from a parking area, an operation detection unit that detects a predetermined operation performed by a driver, and a control unit that executes at least stee...