ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,894, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Automated parking management device and automated parking management method" was invented by Hiroya Chiba (Fuji, Japan), Tatsuya Sugano (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Ryuji Okamura (Gotemba, Japan), Noriyuki Tsuruoka (Susono, Japan) and Daisuke Kakuma (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated parking management device includes a storage device and a processor that performs an organization processing for organizing an automated parking location of a vehicle in a parking lot. In the organization processing, the processor calculates a degree of anti-th...