ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,461, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).

"Transport relocation" was invented by Aghyad Saleh (Grand Prairie, Texas), Joshua C. Batie (Frisco, Texas), Devang H. Parekh (Dallas) and Louis Brugman (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of detecting, by a parking processing node, a parking of a transport at an event location, accessing, by the parking processing node, a device of a transport occupant to determine a transport pickup location and a pickup time based on a conclusion of an event, detecting, by the parking processing node, from t...