ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,468, issued on March 24, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for providing the current capacity utilization of parking spaces along a road to a vehicle, computer-readable medium, system, and vehicle" was invented by Christian Micus (Unterhaching, Germany) and Jasper Smeets (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a current capacity utilization of parking spaces along a road to a vehicle includes receiving a parking position of vehicles of a vehicle fleet, determining a number of roads within a given radius around the parking positions, and determining a road for each vehicle that has th...