US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on March 3 for "Parking assistance device, parking assistance method, and computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,196, issued on March 3, 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 that performs automatic travel of a vehicle based on teaching travel by a driver is provided. 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; performs an automatic travel based o...