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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Priority
Receipt is acknowledged of certified copies of papers required by 37 CFR 1.55.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on November 11, 2024 and December 26, 2025 is being considered by the examiner.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 101
35 U.S.C. 101 reads as follows:
Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.
Claim 13 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 101 because the claimed invention is directed to non-statutory subject matter. The claims recite computer program product being executed by a computer. The broadest reasonable interpretation of these claims covers both non-transitory tangible media and transitory propagating signals per se in view of the ordinary and customary meaning of computer readable-media. See In re Nuijten, 500 F.3d 1346, 1356-57 (Fed. Cir. 2007 (transitory embodiments are not directed to statutory subject matter). The claims may be amended to cover only statutory embodiments and avoid a 35 U.S.C. 101 rejection by adding the limitation "non-transitory" to the claims.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-12 and 14-15 are allowed.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance: many references in the art disclose an automatic parking system (100) for a vehicle (10, figure 1) comprises a first plurality of cameras (11, 12, 13) for capturing an image of a surrounding the vehicle (paraqraph 0053), a plurality of second sensors (51, 52, 53) for detecting current position and movement information of the vehicle (10, paragraph 0054), a user interface (35) includes an input means (36) for detecting a user input and output means (37) for outputting message to the user, and a first control unit (40), operatively coupled to the at least one first sensor, at least one second sensor and the user interface, wherein the first control unit is configured to ascertain a user input relating to a defined parking position; ascertain a parking data set for the defined parking position in response to the user input, the parking data set comprising: (a) a position of a starting region of automated guidance of the vehicle to the defined parking position; and (b) trajectory information of an automated guidance of the vehicle from the starting region to the defined parking position, the trajectory information, such as found in Marek et al. (US 2022/0274588). The prior art of record does not teach or suggest, in the claimed combination, an autonomous parking assistance system for a vehicle, wherein in a follow mode the parking assistance system configured to autonomously follow a trajectory from a number of trajectories taught in a training mode, wherein the respective trajectory being defined by a sequence of positions and connects a starting position to a target position, and wherein the respective trajectory has an associated and stored number of images, captured by an on-board camera, of an environment of the vehicle at the respective position, comprising:
a delivery unit configured to deliver a number of stored images,
a determination unit to determine a display that includes the delivered
images configured to represent the respective associated trajectory,
an output unit configured to output the determined display to a display
device of a user interface of the vehicle,
a receiving unit configured to receive a user input to select at least one image contained in the display from the user interface; and
a control unit configured to initiate an autonomous travel of the vehicle along the trajectory associated with the selected image.
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Conclusion
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/TAI T NGUYEN/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2685 January 12, 2026