US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on May 5 for "Parking assistance method and parking assistance device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,389, issued on May 5, 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 is provided, which performs autonomous travel of a vehicle based on a teaching travel by a driver. The parking assistance method: stores a traveling route traveled by the vehicle according to a driving operation of the driver; displays first image information representing a start position of the traveling route in a first di...