US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on July 8 for "Systems and methods for activation of intelligent parking availability functions" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,477, issued on July 8, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Systems and methods for activation of intelligent parking availability functions" was invented by Takamasa Higuchi (Mountain View, Calif.), Kentaro Oguchi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Derek S. Caveney (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving identification of available parking spaces in congested zones. In one embodiment, a method includes, responsive to receiving trajectory information about movement of a searching vehicle, estimating a s...