US Patent Issued to Hino Motors on March 17 for "Parking route generation device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,893, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hino Motors Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Parking route generation device" was invented by Yutaka Hamaguchi (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking route generation device includes a pattern storage unit that stores a plurality of backward route patterns, a position setting unit that sets a parking start position of a coupled vehicle and a target parking position of the coupled vehicle, a trajectory generation unit that generates a plurality of backward route profiles on the basis of information indicating the wheelbase length of the trailer in the coupled vehicle and information stored in a p...