US Patent Issued on Nov. 4 for "Method and system of creating parking motion for autonomous vehicles" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,496, issued on Nov. 4.

"Method and system of creating parking motion for autonomous vehicles" was invented by Yutaka John Kanayama (Dexter, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for controlling an autonomous vehicle during a parking motion is disclosed. The method includes receiving information, into a processor onboard the vehicle, from at least one sensor, calculating, via a processor onboard the vehicle, a starting vehicle position and a vehicle direction, calculating, via the processor onboard the vehicle, a goal parking position and a goal parking direction based upon the received information from the sensor, c...