US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Nov. 11 for "System and method for selecting a parking spot for a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,390, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for selecting a parking spot for a vehicle" was invented by Matthew E. Gilbert-Eyres (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Adam L. Wright (Livonia, Mich.), Matthew Neely (Rochester, Mich.), Eric T. Hosey (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Russell A. Patenaude (Macomb Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of selecting a parking spot for an autonomous vehicle. The method includes receiving a parking request to park the autonomous vehicle at a parking infrastructure and determining a parking priority for the autonomous vehicle. A pa...