ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,092, issued on May 26, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Parking assistance method and parking assistance device" was invented by Satoshi Fukumoto (Tokyo To, Japan) and Shota Akaura (Kanagawa Ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance method according to the present disclosure performs automated travel of a vehicle based on a parking operation performed in past. The parking assistance method includes acquiring a teacher path based on a travel path in the parking operation performed in the past, acquiring vehicle operation information regarding an operation of at least one veh...