US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 14 for "Parking assistance device and parking assistance program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,375, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Parking assistance device and parking assistance program" was invented by Hiroshi Tanaka (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance device, comprising: a prediction unit for predicting whether or not a distance to an obstacle around the vehicle becomes less than or equal to a reference distance while the vehicle is automatically parked; and a notification unit for performing a notification indicating that a distance to the obstacle may be close during parking to an occupant, when the distance to the obstacle is predicted to be equa...