ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,908, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Connaught Electronics Ltd. (Ireland).

"Systems and methods for detecting parking spot numbers for use by a machine learning model to predict available spots" was invented by Daniel Bartram Scott (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, the device may include receiving, via an image sensor associated with a vehicle, an image of a parking area. In addition, the device may include determining that the image of the parking area includes an available parking spot; analyzing the image of the parking area to locate a number associated with the available parking spot; determ...