US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on Sept. 16 for "Parking assisting method and parking assistance device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,505, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Whether an own vehicle is positioned in a parking space of a first type including a plurality of parking sections or the own vehicle is positioned in a vicinity of a parking space of a second type in which a single vehicle can be parked is determined. In a case where the own vehicle is determined to be positioned i...