US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA on May 20 for "Ingress and egress parking preferences" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,895, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Ingress and egress parking preferences" was invented by Geoffrey David Gaither (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of associating a driver parking space preference to an identified driver of a transport, associating at least one occupant parking space preference to at least one identified occupant of the transport and determining a relative parking position within a potential parking space based on the driver parking space preference and the at least one occupant pa...