US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Nov. 18 for "Methods and systems for parking detection" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,720, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Methods and systems for parking detection" was invented by David W. Wilson (Milford, Mich.), Pulkit Monga (Westland, Mich.), Kalash Jain (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Olivier Barree (Elancourt, France) and Dena Memari (North Bergen, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking detection method includes: accessing data corresponding to an image from a camera on a vehicle; computing a confidence score for a possible vacant parking location from the data corresponding to the image from the camera on the vehicle; and when the confidence score is grea...