ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,276, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Parking assist device and parking assist method" was invented by Ichiya Shimomura (Nagoya, Japan), Keisuke Oyama (Nisshin, Japan), Yuki Minase (Toyota, Japan) and Motonari Obayashi (Nagakute, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assist device includes: a control device configured to control a host vehicle; and an informing device. The control device is configured to execute automatic parking control. The control device is configured to execute warning control in which the informing device is controlled such that the informing device indicates pred...