US Patent Issued to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany on Nov. 25 for "Method and system for optimizing a detected parking space" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,420, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method and system for optimizing a detected parking space" was invented by Jochen Grieser (Bruchkobel RoBdorf, Germany) and Martin Buczko (Griesheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use of a detected parking space, including: a) detecting a potentially usable parking space by sensing a partial area of the parking space by a vehicle sensor system; b) determining an initial parking area contour and an initial parking area orientation for the detected parking space and determining a quality criterion therefor;...