ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,844, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Parking assist apparatus" was invented by Kohei Maejima (Nagakute, Japan), Daiki Maruki (Toyota, Japan), Yuki Minase (Toyota, Japan) and Yu Hiei (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assist apparatus includes an image pickup device, a three-dimensional object information acquisition device, and a control unit which executes parking assist control. The control unit registers in a storage device a path along which the vehicle has traveled when the driver has driven the vehicle from a start position to a parking ...