ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,837, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Parking assistance apparatus and parking assistance method" was invented by Ryutaro Seno (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance apparatus includes: a processor; and a designated parking slot storage circuit that stores an area in a range based on a position away from a vehicle position by a preset distance as a designated parking slot corresponding to a parking instruction of an occupant, in which the processor detects a parking slot corresponding to the designated parking slot, and performs automatic parkin...