ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,320, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cognitive and dynamic vehicular parking" was invented by Edwin J. Bruce (Corinth, Texas) and Romelia H. Flores (Keller, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining user information of a vehicle driver user, the vehicle driver user being a user of a computer based system for managing a parking area; processing information of the user information; and outputting a communication to control an indicator ...