US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 29 for "Vehicle systems for enhancing ingress and/or egress experiences for users" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,910, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle systems for enhancing ingress and/or egress experiences for users" was invented by Michael D. Alarcon (Markham, Canada), Steffen Peter Lindenthal (Oshawa, Canada) and Alaa M. Khamis (Ontario, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system for assisting a user in a parking lot includes a detection module configured to receive data relating to the parking lot and a control module. The control module is configured to detect whether an available parking space is present in the parking lot based on the received data from the detection...