US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on Sept. 1 for "Parking assistance device and parking assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,702, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Parking assistance device and parking assistance method" was invented by Takuma Iida (Kanagawa Ken, Japan), Shota Akaura (Kanagawa Ken, Japan), Takafumi Tokuhiro (Kanagawa Ken, Japan) and Yukihiro Tanizoe (Osaka Fu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance device causes a vehicle to automatically travel based on a travel path in a parking operation in past by a driver, and includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: acquire at least one of environmental information concerning ...