US Patent Issued to DENSO on Jan. 27 for "Parking charge device and parking duration management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,568, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Parking charge device and parking duration management method" was invented by Kodai Yamaura (Kariya, Japan), Masatake Wada (Kariya, Japan) and Takamasa Hidaka (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking charge device, which charges a parking fee of a target vehicle in a parking lot with automated valet parking service, is configured to: start a count operation for charging purpose when a start condition is satisfied, terminate the count operation when a termination condition is satisfied; calculate a parking fee corresponding to a count value obtained b...