ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,897, issued on May 20, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System to predict vehicle parking bunching" was invented by Jeremy Michael Young (Chicago), Leon Stenneth (Chicago) and Jerome Beaurepaire (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, a method and a computer program product are provided to predict vehicle parking bunching in a geographic region. For example, the system is configured to obtain a plurality of contextual features and/or a plurality of sensor data related to parking information in the geographic region. The system is configured to predict a vehicle parking bunching based on...