US 12,073,727 B2
Vehicle location system
Micah Price, The Colony, TX (US); Geoffrey Dagley, McKinney, TX (US); Jason Richard Hoover, Grapevine, TX (US); Stephen Michael Wylie, Carrollton, TX (US); and Qiaochu Tang, Frisco, TX (US)
Assigned to Capital One Services, LLC, McLean, VA (US)
Filed by Capital One Services, LLC, McLean, VA (US)
Filed on Jun. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/805,630.
Application 16/540,626 is a division of application No. 16/289,928, filed on Mar. 1, 2019, granted, now 10,431,098, issued on Oct. 1, 2019.
Application 17/805,630 is a continuation of application No. 17/215,983, filed on Mar. 29, 2021, granted, now 11,355,016.
Application 17/215,983 is a continuation of application No. 16/540,626, filed on Aug. 14, 2019, granted, now 10,964,219, issued on Mar. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0301438 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G08G 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01)
CPC G08G 1/205 (2013.01) [G06F 16/9535 (2019.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of locating a vehicle in a facility comprising a plurality of parking spots and a plurality of vehicles, comprising:
receiving, by a facility sensor, a request from a back-end system for an accounting of the plurality of vehicles in the facility;
responsive to the request, transmitting, by the facility sensor positioned in the facility, a signal to a plurality of parking spot sensors, each parking spot sensor of the plurality of parking spot sensors associated with a respective parking spot, wherein the signal is an instruction to each parking spot sensor to report back a unique identification code of a vehicle sensor co-located therewith;
receiving, by the facility sensor from each parking spot sensor, an emitted signal;
parsing, by the facility sensor, each emitted signal to identify the unique identification code contained therein; and
responsive to identifying the unique identification code in each signal, updating a most recent location of each vehicle in the facility.