ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,219, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Autonomous vehicle automatic parking" was invented by Brian Mark Fields (Phoenix), Chien Che Huang (Normal, Ill.), Mohamed A. Wazeer (Normal, Ill.), Shawn C. Bennett (Le Roy, Ill.), Steven C. Cielocha (Bloomington, Ill.), Ronny S. Bryant (Bloomington, Ill.), Stephen Kohaus (Bloomington, Ill.), Terry Quakenbush (Bloomington, Ill.), Richard A. Novak (Bloomington, Ill.), Craig M. Main (Allen, Texas), Weixin Wu (Bloomington, Ill.), Torri Wollenschlager (Bloomington, Ill.), Carol Marie Csanda (Hudson, Ill.), Stacey Gorsuch (Bloomington, Ill.), Todd Binion (Bloomington, Ill.) and Aar...