ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,778, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for automatic parking based on parking area environment recognition" was invented by Jung-Gyu Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong-Jin Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kyoung-Wook Min (Sejong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for automatic parking based on recognition of a parking area environment. The method may include searching for an available parking space, determining whether reverse parking is possible by recognizing the environment of t...