US Patent Issued to Siemens on June 2 for "Occupancy determination method and system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,326, issued on June 2, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Occupancy determination method and system" was invented by Stefan Perras (Eichenau, Germany) and Josep Soler Garrido (Sevilla, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a method for determination of an actual occupancy distribution of parking spots of a parking area. The method may include: processing an actual image of the parking area to detect one or more vehicles in the actual image, resulting in an actual vehicle representation; and processing the actual vehicle representation and an earlier generated general layout of the parking area to determ...