US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods of visual sonar for adapted vehicle geometry" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,032, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods of visual sonar for adapted vehicle geometry" was invented by Emrah Akin Sisbot (Mountain View, Calif.), Xiaofei Cao (Mountain View, Calif.) and Hangquan Zhao (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods for adapted vehicle geometry include a vehicle and one or more processors. The vehicle includes a camera operable to generate an image of an environment surrounding the vehicle. The environment includes a parking spa...