US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 9 for "Parking assist system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,909, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Parking assist system" was invented by Emrah Akin Sisbot (Menlo Park, Calif.), Seyhan Ucar (Mountain View, Calif.), Takamasa Higuchi (Mountain View, Calif.), Yongkang Liu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assist system for a vehicle includes a processor and a memory communicably coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to detect a parking ...