US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 2 for "Park assist device, park assist method, and non-transitory storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,534, issued on June 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Park assist device, park assist method, and non-transitory storage medium" was invented by Ichiya Shimomura (Nagoya, Japan), Yuki Minase (Toyota, Japan), Keisuke Oyama (Nisshin, Japan), Motonari Obayashi (Nagakute, Japan), Yousuke Hattori (Tokyo), Shinji Kitaura (Tokyo) and Riki Egami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A park assist device includes: a surroundings information sensor configured to acquire information on an object and an indication that are present around a subject vehicle; and an electronic control unit configured to when a request to start...