ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,559, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to EAST CHINA JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY (Nanchang, China).

"Unmanned parking space detection method based on panoramic surround view" was invented by Qiping Chen (Nanchang, China), Zhenghua Chen (Nanchang, China), Dequan Zeng (Nanchang, China), Qin Liu (Nanchang, China), Chengping Zhong (Nanchang, China), Xiaochun Zeng (Nanchang, China), Xiaobo Zhang (Nanchang, China), Hao Wu (Nanchang, China), Yiming Hu (Nanchang, China), Junling Ding (Nanchang, China) and Xuelan Yang (Nanchang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned parking space detection method based on a panoramic surround view is provided....