ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,741, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).

"Real-time autonomous vehicle fleet parking availability" was invented by Joseph Lowman (San Francisco), Tucker Paxton (San Mateo, Calif.), Allen Tang (Millbrae, Calif.), Alexander Bowe (San Francisco), Jacob Yunis (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Kelan Stoy (Albany, Calif.), Mamoon Masud (Austin, Texas), Edward Henry Forscher (Oakland, Calif.), Xiaobai Chen (Chicago) and Enrique Fernandez Gonzalez (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are embodiments for facilitating real-time autonomous vehicle (AV) fleet parking availability. In some aspects, an emb...