ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,777, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Parking assist method and parking assist device" was invented by Yasuhiro Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Musha (Kanagawa, Japan), Ryota Yamanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Satoshi Muramatsu (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assist method performs a parking assist control of a host vehicle based on a target travel path when a distance between a self-position and a target parking position is determined to be equal to or less than a first predetermined distance, a parking assist permission condition is satisfied, and a shift operation fo...