ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,066, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method and system for automated parking of a vehicle" was invented by Martin Brenn (Mainz, Germany), Heinz-Anton Schneider (Niedernhausen, Germany), Carsten Handel (Ginsheim-Gustavsburg, Germany) and Frank Sader (Konigstein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automated parking of a vehicle by means of a parking assistance system, comprises the parking assistance system requesting activation of a holding device in order to hold the vehicle stationary. For safety reasons, a vehicle monitoring system monitors a movemen...