ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,329, issued on March 3.

"Systems and methods to minimize walking in a multi-level parking structure" was invented by Aed M. Dudar (Canton, Mich.) and Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods that minimize walking inside a multi-level parking structure. An example method that may be performed by a processor can include determining a first walking distance between a first unoccupied parking spot on a first parking level of a multi-level parking structure and a destination located outside the multi-level parking structure and can further include dete...