ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,445, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method to learn parking restrictions based on parking behaviors of reliable parkers" was invented by Jerome Beaurepaire (Nantes, France), Leon Stenneth (Chicago) and Jeremy Michael Young (Beverly Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system to learn parking restrictions of a region based on parking behaviors of vehicle parkers is disclosed. The system is configured for determining one or more contextual factors related to a user parking a vehicle in the region; computing a parking trust index based on the one or more contextual factors related...