US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 6 for "System and method for parking spot selection using reinforcement learning" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,663, issued on May 6, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"System and method for parking spot selection using reinforcement learning" was invented by Alireza Esna Ashari Esfahani (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system selecting a parking spot using reinforcement learning includes a first monitor evaluating available parking spots in a parking lot. Reinforcement learning (RL) is used to pick a parking spot based on user preferences. A computer computes a probability of a future parking spot availability from the available parking spots. An information source wherein the computer retrieves infor...