US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 8 for "Systems and methods for controlling vehicle movement in a parking lot" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,755, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for controlling vehicle movement in a parking lot" was invented by Raj Sohmshetty (Canton, Mich.), Yifan Chen (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Smruti Panigrahi (Novi, Mich.) and Hussein Chami (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining parking lot data associated with the parking lot, where the parking lot data indicates an availability of a plurality of parking spaces of the parking lot and obtaining vehicle data associated with the plurality of vehicles, where the vehicle data includes one or more physical...