ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,829, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Parking protection system" was invented by Anthony J. Sumcad (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking protection system includes data processing hardware and memory hardware in communication with the data processing hardware. The memory hardware stores instructions that, when executed on the data processing hardware, cause the data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations include predicting an event based on event data, determining, based on the predicted event, protective attributes, determining an availabil...