US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on Oct. 20 for "Predicting parking availability" (North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,513, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Predicting parking availability" was invented by Nikhil Dama (Apex, N.C.), Laura Frisbie Evans (Roswell, Ga.), Christopher Ryan Haberland (Seattle), Ting Lu (San Antonio), Simon Phillip Stolarczyk (San Antonio) and Kristopher Thomas Williams (Helotes, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking availability predictor system provides a prediction of parking availability that meets a user's specified needs. When the user submits a query for parking availability, he can include desired parking criteria such as location, handicapped s...