ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,495, issued on July 15, was assigned to Faurecia Clarion Electronics Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).
"Parking assistance device" was invented by Junya Murayama (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance device includes: a vehicle location acquiring unit for acquiring the current location of a vehicle; an object information acquiring unit for acquiring object information that includes information relating to locations of objects in the vicinity of the vehicle; and a target route setting unit for setting a plurality of routes between the current location and a predetermined parking space, identifying the route, of t...