ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,708, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Parking assistance device" was invented by Yoji Inui (Kariya, Japan), Shota Sobue (Kariya, Japan), Masaki Furukawa (Kariya, Japan), Naoki Yamamura (Kariya, Japan), Yuya Shimohira (Kariya, Japan), Masataka Yamamoto (Kariya, Japan) and Ryutaro Kato (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance device that recognizes a parking stall where a vehicle is to be parked, includes: at least three cameras that take images of an outside of the vehicle; a setting unit that sets, based on a preset setting condition, a camera which is to take an image used for ...