ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,459, issued on May 20, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for context oriented auto park assist" was invented by Arun Adiththan (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Md Mhafuzul Islam (Warren, Mich.), Prakash Mohan Peranandam (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Sachin Raviram (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for context-oriented auto park assist includes sensor, communication, and vehicle control sub-systems. Each sub-systems has control modules having processors, memories, and input/output (I/O) ports. The I/O ports of the sensor and communication sub-systems are in communication with...