US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Dec. 16 for "Automated valet parking system and method, infrastructure and vehicle thereof, cooperated with wireless vehicle charging service" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,924, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Automated valet parking system and method, infrastructure and vehicle thereof, cooperated with wireless vehicle charging service" was invented by Sung Won Yoon (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated valet parking method includes: when charging of an electric vehicle is needed, performing: i) before providing a parking space to the electric vehicle, guiding, by a parking infrastructure, the electric vehicle to autonomously drive to a charging service zone, and ii) after charging of the el...