ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,487, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for vehicle parking guidance" was invented by Toshiro Ozawa (Irvine, Calif.) and Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of trigger points within the parking facility are monitored for trigger events. For each trigger event detected within the parking facility, a respective optimal parking spot is determined, using a global optimization algorithm, for each respective vehicle of a plurality of vehicles within the parking facility that have not yet parked in a parking spot. The optimal parking spots are then ass...