ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,072, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Parking facility and parking system" was invented by Masayuki Itoh (Nagoya, Japan), Iwao Maeda (Nagoya, Japan), Tatsuya Sugano (Susono, Japan), Norinao Watanabe (Susono, Japan), Yutaka Nakamura (Susono, Japan), Yoshikazu Jikuhara (Susono, Japan) and Yuki Nishikawa (Susono, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking facility is suitable for carrying a vehicle into a parking stall or carrying the vehicle out of the parking stall by a transport vehicle that enters a lower space under the vehicle and picks up the vehicle. The parking facility includes a re...