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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2022
GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);
Patrick Giancarlo Gabriel DiGioacchino, Niagra Falls, CA;
Utkarsh Saini, Pickering, CA;
Fred W Huntzicker, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for controlling alignment of a vehicle during parking that include obtaining sensor data via one or more sensors of a vehicle, as to passenger occupancy of the vehicle and as to a parking location for the vehicle; identifying, via a processor of the vehicle, which passenger seats of the vehicle are occupied, based on the sensor data; identifying, via the processor, the parking location based on the sensor data; and determining, via the processor, an offset for parking of the vehicle in the parking location, based at least in part on which passenger seats of the vehicle are occupied.