ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,773, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, parking assistance method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Yuki Tatsumoto (Seto, Japan), Josuke Yamane (Nagoya, Japan), Hirotaka Nogami (Nisshin, Japan), Kazuya Nishimura (Anjo, Japan) and Takumi Fukunaga (Iwakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a controller and a display. The controller is configured to detect a parking space in which a vehicle is to be parked, as a rectangular area having a longitudinal direction and a shortitudinal direction,...