ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,914, issued on March 25, was assigned to Emerging Automotive LLC (Scotts Valley, Calif.).
"Vehicles for driverless self-park" was invented by Angel A. Penilla (Sacramento, Calif.) and Albert S. Penilla (Scotts Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for navigating a vehicle automatically from a current location to a destination location without a human operator is disclosed. The method includes identifying a vehicle location using global positioning system (GPS) data regarding the vehicle. Also included is identifying that the vehicle location is near or at a parking location. Then, using mapping data defin...