US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 4 for "Optimizing parking locations" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,311, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Optimizing parking locations" was invented by Manoj Kumar Sharma (Troy, Mich.), Donald K. Grimm (Utica, Mich.) and Joseph F. Szczerba (Grand Blanc, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of selecting an optimized parking location includes presenting a list of parking preference options to a user, collecting parking preferences, identifying a destination and current location of the vehicle, collecting data from a plurality of sensors within the vehicle, collecting data from external sources and creating a list of potential parking spaces, filt...