US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Sept. 8 for "Parking area detection" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,838, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Parking area detection" was invented by Minwoo Park (Saratoga, Calif.), Gang Pan (Fremont, Calif.), Ayon Sen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hsin Miao (San Francisco) and Dongran Liu (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, parking area detection for autonomous and/or semi-autonomous systems and applications is described herein. Systems and methods described herein may use a hybrid method to more accurately determine geometries of the parking areas within environments. For instance, sensor data (e.g., image data, etc.) may be processed usi...