ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,339, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Parking method, apparatus and system" was invented by Douglas Mackenzie (Plymouth, Mich.), Venkatesh Dudiki (Plymouth, Mich.) and Zhe Li (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking method includes searching a moving path of a trailer, giving a movement instruction to a vehicle, based on the moving path of the trailer, measuring one or both of a current location of the trailer and a current direction of the trailer according to the movement instruction, comparing one or both of a desired location of the trailer and a desired direction o...