ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,643, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Eleven-X Inc. (Canada).

"Parking sensor device for determining occupancy of a parking space" was invented by Jeff Clemmer (New Dundee, Canada), Chris Snyder (Waterloo, Canada), Brandon Davies (Kitchener, Canada) and Jonathan Swoboda (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a parking sensor device for determining occupancy of a parking space. The parking sensor device has a magnetometer sensor configured to detect a magnetic field, and a radar sensor configured to perform at least one radar scan to detect presence of an object. In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosur...