ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,265, issued on May 6, was assigned to Panasonic Automotive Systems Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Parking assist method and parking assist device" was invented by Takafumi Tokuhiro (Kanagawa Ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assist method according to the present disclosure is for performing autonomous driving of a vehicle on the basis of teacher driving by a driver. The parking assist method includes acquiring, from an imaging device installed in the vehicle, captured images obtained by imaging periphery of the vehicle in time series according to movement of the vehicle during the teacher driving. The method includes...