ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,326, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Remote maneuvering system for a vehicle and associated method" was invented by Pietro Buttolo (Dearborn Heights, Mich.), Neha Singhal (Northville, Mich.), Biaohe Guo (Northville, Mich.), Mark Larry (Macomb, Mich.) and Kenneth Michael Mayer (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including perform a remote maneuver of a vehicle, and instruct a mobile device to provide a feedback to an...