US Patent Issued to DENSO on Jan. 27 for "Parking assistance device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,068, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Parking assistance device" was invented by Shinya Yamaguchi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance device for assisting automatic parking of a vehicle includes a determination unit, an obstacle acquisition unit, a prediction unit, and a notification unit. The determination unit determines a parking area for the automatic parking. The obstacle acquisition unit acquires an obstacle around the determined parking area before the automatic parking. The prediction unit predicts an openable amount, by which a door of the vehicle is openable, ba...