ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,464, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Aichi, Japan).

"Parking assistance device" was invented by Kota Ishikawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance device includes: a target speed control unit that calculates a target speed for moving the vehicle subjected to assistance to a target parking position of the vehicle subjected to assistance; a speed feedback control unit that calculates a target acceleration based on deviation between the target speed and an actual speed of the vehicle subjected to assistance; a correction processing unit that corrects the target acceleration so that an absolu...