ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,835, issued on June 23, was assigned to Woehr Autoparksysteme GmbH (Friolzheim, Germany).

"Parking facility for motor vehicles" was invented by Andreas Zangerle (Renningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking facility for motor vehicles includes a carrying device with parking spaces, reception devices that are movable into a parking position in the parking space and out of it, parking space-side contact elements that are suppliable with electrical energy, arranged on at least some reception devices, and corresponding device-side contact elements and a connection element electrically coupled thereto for connecting to a ve...