ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,347, issued on April 14, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle accessibility parking" was invented by Matthew Neely (Rochester, Mich.), Matthew E. Gilbert-Eyres (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Russell A. Patenaude (Macomb Township, Mich.), Eric T. Hosey (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Adam L. Wright (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for vehicle accessibility parking including creating an accessibility profile associated with a vehicle and also creating a profile of the vehicle. Based on the profile of the vehicle and the accessibility profile, one or more parking locations ar...