US Patent Issued to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on July 1 for "Parking support apparatus and parking support method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,235, issued on July 1, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Parking support apparatus and parking support method" was invented by Akihito Murai (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshimasa Okabe (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hirofumi Nishimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking support apparatus includes an instruction detection section that detects the occupant's parking instruction based on an operation of the occupant of the vehicle or a history of a motion of the vehicle, and a vehicle control section that performs the automatic parking of the vehicle. When the history indicates that the vehicle...