US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 2 for "Automated valet parking management device and automated valet parking management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,114, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Automated valet parking management device and automated valet parking management method" was invented by Hiroya Chiba (Fuji, Japan), Tatsuya Sugano (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Yuhei Oka (Susono, Japan) and Yuki Okamoto (Hadano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated valet parking management device according to the present disclosure includes one or more processors and one or more memory devices. The one or more memory devices store map information on a parking facility including a loading dock and positional information on a door of a cargo room inclu...