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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2022
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Brendan F. Diamond, Grosse Pointe, MI (US);
Jonathan Hair, Northville, MI (US);
Keith Weston, Canton, MI (US);
Stuart C. Salter, White Lake, MI (US);
Michael Alan McNees, Flat Rock, MI (US);
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Parking settings and map data indicative of parking locations in proximity to a structure that are available for the vehicle are maintained to a memory of a vehicle, the parking settings indicating a first time at which the vehicle is to enter an automatic parking mode in which the vehicle moves among the parking locations in proximity to the structure, and a second time at which the vehicle is to exit the automatic parking mode. In the automatic parking mode, responsive to the parking settings indicating an automated parking movement, the parking locations are selected from to determine a parking location into which to move the vehicle and the automated parking movement is performed using a virtual drive system of the vehicle to move the vehicle from a current parked location in proximity to the structure to the determined parking location in proximity to the structure.