US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 17 for "Parking management device, vehicle, and parking management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,685, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Parking management device, vehicle, and parking management method" was invented by Daisaku Honda (Nagoya, Japan), Hiroya Matsubayashi (Nisshin, Japan), Ryota Tomizawa (Mishima, Japan), Satoshi Tanabe (Susono, Japan), Nobutsugu Maruiwa (Mishima, Japan), Yasuhiro Kobatake (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiroki Awano (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking management device for a parking lot adjacent to a store that provides a product includes a provision time acquisition unit 6 that acquires a provision time of a product ordered by a driver driving the ve...