US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on June 17 for "Parking assistance method and parking assistance device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,631, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Parking assistance method and parking assistance device" was invented by Yasuhiro Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Musha (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryota Yamanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assistance method includes: calculating a first target travel trajectory starting from a start point of an actual travel trajectory when a vehicle is parked by manual driving and reaching a target parking position; calculating a deviation range including a portion of the actual travel trajectory in which the actual travel trajectory deviates...