ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,313, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Parking assist method and parking assist device" was invented by Takafumi Tokuhiro (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assist method and device for performing autonomous driving of a vehicle on a basis of teacher driving are provided. Captured images acquired from an imaging device installed in the vehicle are obtained by imaging a periphery of the vehicle. A travel route of the vehicle in the teacher driving is recorded. First and second overhead images of first and second display target ranges viewed from above are ...