US Patent Issued to AISIN on May 26 for "Driving assistance device and computer program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,064, issued on May 26, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a driving assistance device allowing, when a vehicle is parked in a parking lot, provision of driving assistance based on an appropriate travel path. The device is configured such that when a vehicle is parked in a parking lot, an intra-parking-lot network representing a route that can be selected by the vehicle in the parking lot is obtained. Using this network, a...