US Patent Issued to INRIX on March 3 for "Probabilistic parking routes" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,067, issued on March 3, was assigned to INRIX Inc. (Kirkland, Wash.).

"Probabilistic parking routes" was invented by Indra Puri (Issaquah, Wash.), Linjun Zhou (Issaquah, Wash.), William M Hsu (Redmond, Wash.), Dominic Jason Jordan (Manchester, Great Britain), Patchrawat Uthaisombut (Sammamish, Wash.) and Douglas Irvine (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Navigation systems are often tasked with routing a vehicle to a destination. Navigation device configurations are provided and involve probabilistic evaluation of parking routes in a vicinity of a destination that may be generated and compared, and may be optionally weighted by v...