ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,298, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Portable parking assistance system, method and computer program product" was invented by Nicolas Jecker (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Lasse Schnepel (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Fabian Fuchs (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Malte Joos (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Ludovic Mosnier-Thoumas (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Thirumalai Kumarasamy Ayyappan (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable parking assistance system is disclosed. The system is suitable for being set up and dismantled ...