ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,129, issued on June 16, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Driving assistance device and computer program" was invented by Mitsuhiro Nimura (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a driving assistance device/program enabling selection of an appropriate parking space for parking a vehicle. A lane network which is a network representing movement into lanes that can be selected by a vehicle, a parking network which is a network representing a course that can be selected by the vehicle in a parking lot, an after-getting-out-of-vehicle network which is a network representing a course that can be selected by a ...