US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Parking-spot identification and selection using radar-centric occupancy grid maps" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,300, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Parking-spot identification and selection using radar-centric occupancy grid maps" was invented by Qian Wang (Westfield, Ind.) and Jeremy S. Greene (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and systems for identifying and selecting a parking spot using radar-centric occupancy grid (RCOG) maps. An example system includes a processor that can identify available parking spots near a host vehicle using sensor data, including a radar occupancy grid (ROG) map. Parking-spot characteristics of each available parki...