US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 8 for "Parking management system and parking management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,972, issued on April 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Parking management system and parking management method" was invented by Tatsuya Sugano (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Hiroya Chiba (Fuji, Japan) and Rika Oike (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure proposes a parking management system for managing parking of vehicles in a parking lot of a specific facility including a pick-up and drop-off area. The parking management system comprises one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute, when a vehicle enters the parking lot, acquiring a scheduled usage time a...