ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,867, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Parking system" was invented by Wim Nuyts (Leuven, Belgium) and Nikita Veshchikov (Brussels).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking system for automatically rearranging at least one parked vehicle at a parking location in response to the at least one parked vehicle receiving a signal from an arriving vehicle indicating an intent to park at the parking location. The parked vehicle employs an autonomous driving and parking system to exit its current parking location and re-park so as to create more space for the arriving vehicle. The system increases the likelih...