ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,291, issued on June 3, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Parking assist apparatus, parking assist system, and parking assist method" was invented by Kenji Kohara (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assist apparatus is configured to: detect a level difference existing around the vehicle; determine whether the detected level difference is a passing target level difference required to be passed without avoidance or an avoidance target level difference required to be avoided; and control a notification apparatus to output, toward an inside of a compartment of the vehicle, a notification indicating a passing...