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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,096, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Parking support method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and parking support system" was invented by Tatsuya Sugano (Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a parking support method for supporting parking of a vehicle in a parking place, the vehicle capable of autonomous driving at least in the parking place. The parking support method comprises the following three steps. The first step is a step of setting an exclusive area in which other vehicles are prohibited from traveling in order ...