ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,240, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Remote parking assistance device" was invented by Shinya Sannodo (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the remote parking assistance device, the assistance mode that can be executed in the remote parking assistance control is limited according to a detection distance that is a distance at which the presence or absence of a smart key can be detected by the vehicle system. Specifically, as the detection distance becomes shorter, the number of support modes that cannot be selected by the operator using the remote control terminal and/or the number o...