ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,492, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Automatic parking lot management system, automatic parking lot management method, and storage medium" 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: "An automatic parking lot management system includes an infrastructure sensor for detecting a preset range in a parking lot. A mobile body including a peripheral detection sensor ...