ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,172, issued on March 18, was assigned to Magna Electronics Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicular intelligent remote parking assist system" was invented by Harold E. Joseph (Brampton, Canada), Truman S. Shen (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Jyothi P. Gali (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Alexander Velichko (Toronto) and Kevin A. Powell (Brampton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular parking assistance system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and capturing image data. An electronic control unit (ECU) includes an image processor for processing image data captured by the camera. The parking assistance system, responsive to an inp...