US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 20 for "Parking lot management method and parking lot management system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,898, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Parking lot management method and parking lot management system" was invented by Hiroya Chiba (Fuji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking lot includes a plurality of parking spaces monitored by a single camera. A parking lot management method for managing the parking lot includes a parking space allocation process that allocates an available parking space having a highest entry priority among the plurality of parking spaces to an entry vehicle entering the parking lot. The plurality of parking spaces include a first parking space and a second parki...