US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Nov. 18 for "Parking assist device, parking assist method, and vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,937, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Parking assist device, parking assist method, and vehicle" was invented by Kota Inoue (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assist device including a retractable door handle device that includes a door handle with a built-in antenna used for a communication with a terminal carried by a user positioned outside a host vehicle and an actuator that causes the door handle to transition from a first state to a second state, the parking assist device comprising a processor that is configured to communicate with the terminal using the antenna...