ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,304, issued on May 27, was assigned to HONK MOBILE INC. (Toronto).

"System and method for a parking system" was invented by Tony La (Toronto) and Michael Back (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for facilitating parking sessions are provided. The system including at least one server that is configured to: receive through a communication network, from a first remote user equipment (UE) device, information associating a unique identification (UID) encoded on an passive NFC tag with a parking zone identification (ID) that identifies a physical parking zone; update a database to associate the UID with the parking ...