US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 29 for "Occupancy based parking alignment for automated and assisted parking" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,096, issued on April 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Occupancy based parking alignment for automated and assisted parking" was invented by Patrick Giancarlo Gabriel DiGioacchino (Niagra Falls, Canada), Utkarsh Saini (Pickering, Canada) and Fred W Huntzicker (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for controlling alignment of a vehicle during parking that include obtaining sensor data via one or more sensors of a vehicle, as to passenger occupancy of the vehicle and as to a parking location for the vehicle; identifying, via a processor of the vehicle, which p...