US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on April 22 for "Parking lot awareness assistance using connected vehicle cooperation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,907, issued on April 22, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Parking lot awareness assistance using connected vehicle cooperation" was invented by Sergei S. Avedisov (Mountain View, Calif.), Onur Altintas (Mountain View, Calif.) and Takamasa Higuchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a vehicle system includes a controller. The controller may be programmed to perform operations including identifying a subject in a conflict zone in a parking area by a sensor, determining a trajectory of a vehicle and a...