ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,005, issued on July 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Parking control apparatus" was invented by Yuki Minase (Toyota, Japan) and Motonari Obayashi (Nagakute, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking control apparatus includes a control unit capable of executing backward parking assist control based on surrounding information. In a case when a parking space is detected, when a specific condition to be satisfied when the parking space has a relatively narrow width is satisfied, the control unit executes guidance control as the backward parking assist control. The guidance control is control for moving a ve...