US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on April 15 for "Parking process and parking assistance system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,395, issued on April 15, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Parking process and parking assistance system" was invented by Marc Rober (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Tobias Wittrock (Hurth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking operation of a vehicle from a starting position to a parked position in a perpendicular parking space includes determining a trajectory into the parked position with at least one parking movement and potentially one or more corrective movements which includes a change of direction. A blocking line is defined running in a straight line and longitudinally through the vehicle whe...