ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,123, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Hangzhou Dianzi University (Hangzhou, China).
"Bus parking allocation method and apparatus considering operational preferences" was invented by Xiaoying Shi (Hangzhou, China), Liming Tu (Hangzhou, China), Lie Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Xuqi Luo (Hangzhou, China) and Jundong Wang (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a bus parking allocation method and apparatus considering operational preferences. The method includes: obtaining a bus station dataset, a parking lot dataset, a bus information dataset, and a bus departure/return dataset; obtaining a distance dataset containing ...