ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,759, issued on March 25, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Parking spot identification and annotation" was invented by Yecheng Lyu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sihao Ding (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods are presented regarding utilizing technology onboard a vehicle to identify and annotate a vehicle parking spot. The parking spot is identified in a digital image captured by an onboard camera and imaging system, wherein an image including the parking spot can be annotated with a shape identifying the parking spot and further annotated with information regarding the par...