US Patent Issued to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 7 for "System and method for vehicle-to-vehicle open parking spotlight" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,065, issued on July 7, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"System and method for vehicle-to-vehicle open parking spotlight" was invented by Mackensie M. Monegan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems of the present disclosure allow vehicles and infrastructure to identify an open parking space using one or more sensors. Once an open parking space is identified, a user of a vehicle or mobile device can reserve the open parking space in advance of arrival at the open parking space by accessing a parking applic...