US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 14 for "Load and unload support device and load and unload support" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,339, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Load and unload support device and load and unload support" was invented by Hiroya Chiba (Fuji, Japan), Tatsuya Sugano (Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan) and Rika Oike (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load and unload support device includes an information processing unit for communicating with a user terminal of a first vehicle and a control terminal of a second vehicle. When the second vehicle is parked between an entrance/exit of a parallel parking lot connected to a road and the first vehicle, the information processing unit transmits a tem...