ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,312, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Occupancy estimation system for a vehicle" was invented by Michael Baltaxe (Kfar Saba, Israel), Ron Hecht (Raanana, Israel), Omer Tsimhoni (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Ariel Telpaz (Givat Haim Meuhad, Israel), Gershon Celniker (Netanya, Israel) and Dan Levi (Ganei Tikvah, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method when executed by data processing hardware causes the data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations include generating, at an occupancy estimation network, an occupancy probability at one or more vo...