US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on July 29 for "Methods and apparatus for using wide area networks to support parking systems" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,116, issued on July 29, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and apparatus for using wide area networks to support parking systems" was invented by Wael Guibene (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A customer premises parking system including one or more cameras and wireless communications transmission capability is described. The presence of a vehicle with a license plate at an entrance or exit of a parking area is detected and one or more high resolution images are captured and time stamped. A license plate portion of the HD image is captured and stored. The license plate number and co...