US Patent Issued to Robert Bosch on Nov. 3 for "Automated valet parking" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,182, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Automated valet parking" was invented by Harikrishnan Lakshmanan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples provide an autonomous valet parking (AVP) server for a parking lot. The AVP server includes an electronic processor configured to detect that an autonomous vehicle is travelling along a guideline of a first aisle in the parking lot, and detect that the autonomous vehicle is stopped at a first intersection of the parking lot. In response to detecting that the autonomous vehicle is stopped at the first intersection, the electronic proces...