US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Automatic parking control device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,381, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Automatic parking control device" was invented by Kota Inoue (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The processor 162 of ECU160 is configured to park a vehicle at a designated position by a semi-automatic parking control in which the driver only operates a shift lever, and to temporarily interrupt the automatic parking control when the driver operates the shift lever to a parking range at the time of turning-back of the steering wheel during the automatic parking control."

The patent was filed on April 5, 2024, under Application No. 18/627,539.

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