ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,065, issued on May 26, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Parking assistance method and parking assistance device" was invented by Takafumi Tokuhiro (Kanagawa, Japan), Masashi Hoshino (Tokyo) and Satoshi Fukumoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance method according to the present disclosure is a method of performing autonomous travel of a vehicle based on a travel route generated using teaching travel by a driver. The parking assistance method includes: acquiring a position of the vehicle and an azimuth in a travel direction of the vehicle; outputting, based on the position...