ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,339, issued on July 15, was assigned to Pied Parker Inc. (Sacramento, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for parking space selection and navigation based on weighted parameter comparison" was invented by Gianni Rosas-Maxemin (Sacramento, Calif.), Robert Mazzola (Sacramento, Calif.), Francisco Sandoval (Sacramento, Calif.) and Callam Poynter (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Parking space selection and navigation systems and methods are disclosed. Computing devices are configured to receive a search request from a user device to secure a first parking space, secure a first parking space for the first user device, determine...