ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,880, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Smart parking recommendation system for energy conservation" was invented by Abbas Mohammed (Whitby, Canada), Alaa M. Khamis (Courtice, Canada), Dhruv Patel (Oshawa, Canada), Joseph F. Szczerba (Grand Blanc, Mich.), Mutaz Keldani (Oshawa, Canada), Karl Bo Albert Mikkelsen (Peachland, Canada) and Paul E. Krajewski (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart parking recommendation system for energy conservation in a vehicle includes a smart parking recommendation application (SPRA) that determines that enabling conditions have been met and obt...