ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,067, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Autonomous parking and summoning operations in locations without cellular communication coverage" was invented by Rajashekar Reddy Billapati (Noblesville, Ind.), Kanishka Tyagi (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Sruthi Kilari (Noblesville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and systems for autonomous parking in locations without cellular coverage. A system can include a processor that obtains a request to autonomously park in a parking environment. The system can then determine whether parking space information ind...