ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,456, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Parking assist apparatus" was invented by Tatsuya Ishiguro (Toyota, Japan), Takuya Nakagawa (Okazaki, Japan), Yoshiki Hayakawa (Takahama, Japan) and Yohei Suzuki (Handa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The parking assist apparatus includes a parking assist ECU configured to be able to execute an automated parking control for parking the own vehicle in a target parking spot. The parking assist ECU calculates an estimated value of a width of an entrance of the target parking spots, detects the presence or absence of a getting-off obstacle that affects...