ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,657, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle path determination" was invented by Hamid M. Golgiri (Livonia, Mich.), Chenhao Ma (Canton, Mich.), Tony Tae-Jin Pak (Garden City, Mich.), Arnav Sharma (Canton, Mich.) and Ahmed Benmimoun (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle is determined to be in a parking area based on vehicle sensor data. A mapping operation mode is activated based on determining the vehicle is in the parking area. A travel path of the vehicle through the parking area is recorded based on receiving a user input selecting the mapping operation mode. ...