US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 23 for "Parking assistance method, parking assistance apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,095, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Parking assistance method, parking assistance apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" was invented by Tatsuya Sugano (Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assisting parking of a vehicle in a parking lot is proposed. The method comprises the steps of generating node information from a start position to an end position of a leaving operation of the vehicle, calculating a reference distance between a start node and a reference node which is a node located in front of the vehicle among nodes located on a dr...