US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on July 15 for "Providing information to navigate to a parking space preferred by an operator of a vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,931, issued on July 15, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Providing information to navigate to a parking space preferred by an operator of a vehicle" was invented by Takamasa Higuchi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing information to navigate to a parking space preferred by an operator of a vehicle can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a preliminary operations module and a communications module. The preliminary operations module can include instructions that cause the proc...