US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 15 for "Coordinated vehicle movement for presence simulation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,496, issued on July 15, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Coordinated vehicle movement for presence simulation" was invented by Brendan F. Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Jonathan Hair (Northville, Mich.), Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.) and Michael Alan McNees (Flat Rock, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Parking settings and map data indicative of parking locations in proximity to a structure that are available for the vehicle are maintained to a memory of a vehicle, the parking settings indicating a first time at which the vehicle is to enter an automatic parking...