ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,677, issued on June 17, was assigned to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Method to improve parking alignment" was invented by Mirian Rodriguez Romero (Troy, Mich.) and Ovidiu Buzdugan Romcea (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated parking system for parking a vehicle within a parking slot includes a communication device and an automated parking device. The communication device includes a display that depicts a visual representation of the vehicle within the parking slot. The communication device also includes a human machine interface (HMI) that receives user input and, according to ...