US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 16 for "Automated valet parking management system and automated valet parking management method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,703, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Automated valet parking management system and automated valet parking management method" was invented by Hiroya Chiba (Fuji, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated valet parking (AVP) management system executes a tentative allocation process that allocates a tentative parking space on a passage in a parking lot to an entry vehicle, when there is no available regular parking space in the parking lot. In the tentative allocation process, the AVP management system acquires a scheduled exit time of a parked vehicle parked in a regular parking space...