US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Parking space management method and communication apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,775, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Parking space management method and communication apparatus" was invented by Jing Ma (Yokohama, Japan), Lei Zhong (Chuo-ku, Japan), Xiao Shao (Kawasaki, Japan) and Ryokichi Onishi (Setagaya-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking space management method by a communication apparatus comprises transmitting, a radio signal beamformed in a specific direction, determining that a parking space associated with the specific direction is in a state of being vacant when the communication apparatus receives a response signal in response to the radio signal,...