ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,394, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Parking support apparatus and parking support method" was invented by Akihito Murai (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirofumi Nishimura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshimasa Okabe (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking support apparatus includes a storage that stores a manual parking path, and a processor that sets a safety region where the vehicle can pass. The processor causes the vehicle to perform automatic driving based on the generated automatic parking path, and the processor generates a parking path configured for driving within a...