US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on Nov. 3 for "Parking control method and parking control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,183, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Parking control method and parking control device" was invented by Muku Takeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasuhiro Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of a parking control device calculates a target parking position with respect to a vehicle by associating each of learned feature points with each of surrounding feature points. The processor calculates, when the vehicle moves from a first vehicle position to a second vehicle position, a feature point match amount that is a ratio of surrounding feature points associated with learne...