US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on Feb. 10 for "Parking assistance device, parking assistance method, and computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,239, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Parking assistance device, parking assistance method, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Toru Yamaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takafumi Tokuhiro (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masashi Hoshino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance device performs automatic travel of a vehicle based on teaching travel by a driver. In this regard, the parking assistance device learns a travel route for parking the vehicle in a parking position during the teaching travel, based on the teaching travel. The parking assistance device further ...