ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,290, issued on June 3, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Predictive vehicle parking systems" was invented by Ginger Chien (Bellevue, Wash.), Zhi Cui (Sugar Hill, Ga.), Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas), Robert T. Moton Jr. (Alpharetta, Ga.), Adrianne Binh Luu (Atlanta) and Robert Koch (Peachtree Corners, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system including at least one processor may obtain a parking request for a vehicle to park at a parking facility and may offer a plurality of parking spots of the parking facility for the vehicle, where at least one of the plurality of parking spots that is offered i...