ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,963, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to VESTELLALAB INC. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"System and method for controlling parking of autonomous vehicle" was invented by Sang Su Jung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Yung Ji Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Young Soo Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Dhananjay Singh (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a system and a method, for controlling parking of an autonomous vehicle, the system includes a vehicle control device including a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor, in which the processor is further configured to execute the in...