US Patent Issued to Apollo Autonomous Driving USA on Oct. 7 for "Automated vehicle parking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,689, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apollo Autonomous Driving USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Automated vehicle parking" was invented by Baoping Yuan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yaoming Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to robust methodologies for autonomous parking. In one or more embodiments, an autonomous vehicle may determine the slope of a road based upon one or more inputs and a pre-defined slope definition and may also determine curb/no curb status of a parking location. Given the determined road conditions, such as slope and no curb/curb, embodiments determine wheel direction and ang...