ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,615, issued on Nov. 4.

"System and method for computer vision assisted parking space monitoring with automatic fee payments" was invented by Anil Merchant (Dublin, Calif.), Harris Graves Lummis (Houston), Ganesh Sankar Harsha Vardhan Vanama (Eastvale, Calif.), Sai Prajwal Kotamraju (Los Angeles), Raghak Radhakrishnan (Los Angeles), Ashwin Mohan (Pasadena, Calif.) and Michelle L'Estrange (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for computer vision assisted parking space monitoring, vehicle identification, transactionable event determination, calculation of parking fees, automated transaction processing, invo...