US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 10 for "Vehicle automated re-parking for cabin temperature and fuel economy optimization" (Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,413, issued on June 10, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle automated re-parking for cabin temperature and fuel economy optimization" was invented by Arturo Alberto Garcia Ramirez (Venustiano Carranza, Mexico), Jose Emmanuel Ramirez Lluvias (Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico) and Grecia Jimena Reyes Vazquez (Mexico City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "After a driver parks a vehicle and has left the vehicle, a system relocates the autonomous vehicle into an optimized parking spot. The system obtains availability of other parking spots within a parking lot in which the vehicle is located. The system estimates w...