US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 14 for "Parking system and parking method" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,756, issued on July 14, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Parking system and parking method" was invented by Yong Joon Lee (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of parking a vehicle occupied by a disabled person includes: generating sensing data by sensing surroundings of the vehicle and searching for empty spaces using the sensing data; categorizing each of the empty spaces into a no-parking space, a first parking space for a disabled person with a wheelchair activity space, a second parking space for the disabled person without a wheelchair activi...