ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,194, issued on March 3, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Parking assistance apparatus and parking assistance method" was invented by Yasuo Yokouchi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a parking assistance apparatus that performs parking assistance based on a route of a vehicle in training traveling. The parking assistance apparatus includes a processor that causes the training traveling to be resumed from a predetermined position on a first route in the training traveling. The processor determines, as a training route, a route including a route before the predetermined ...