ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,629, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle departure control method by remote parking" was invented by Masaaki Amano (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle departure control method by remote parking performed by a user operating a terminal device, the step of confirming that the delivery is a delivery from the mechanical multistory parking lot, a step of determining whether the vehicle to be delivered is moved in the mechanical multistory parking lot, when it is determined that the vehicle is moved, or when it is determined that the vehicle is not in the delivery preparation...