US Patent Issued to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on March 24 for "Parking support method, parking support apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,444, issued on March 24, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Parking support method, parking support apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium" was invented by Yoshimasa Okabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hirofumi Nishimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking support method sets a parking route for parking a vehicle in a first parking slot, sets a branching point on the parking route, and sets a branching route for parking the vehicle in a second parking slot from the branching point. When a change instruction operation is detected while the vehicle is being automatically ...