US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on Oct. 27 for "Parking assistance method and parking assistance device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,950, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Parking assistance method and parking assistance device" was invented by Yasuhiro Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Ko Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhiro Sakurai (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryota Yamanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Junya Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance device includes: a sensor-information processing circuit that detects an empty parking space around a host vehicle; a surrounding-image generation circuit that generates a surrounding image that is a view of surroundings of the host...