US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 16 for "Control of autonomous parking of vehicles to select optimal parking locations" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,688, issued on June 16, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Control of autonomous parking of vehicles to select optimal parking locations" was invented by Samuel B. Kupfer (Oak Park, Mich.) and Mayssaa El Rifai (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system include receiving a request for autonomous parking of a vehicle; upon receiving the request, obtaining information as to a plurality of potential parking spots, including as to their respective effects on a temperature of the vehicle; selecting, via a processor of the vehicle, one of the plurality of potential parking spots as a selecte...