US Patent Issued to Panasonic Automotive Systems on Feb. 10 for "Driving assistance apparatus and driving assistance method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,241, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Driving assistance apparatus and driving assistance method" was invented by Yoshimasa Okabe (Kanagawa, Japan), Masayoshi Michiguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Yudai Ishibashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kantaro Matsuyama (Tokyo), Yusuke Tsuji (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hirotaka Nagaoka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a driving assistance apparatus that makes it possible to correctly estimate an inclination angle of a slope inclined in any direction and perform more accurate automatic parking by performing inclination direction esti...