US Patent Issued to J.J. MACKAY CANADA on Sept. 30 for "Parking meter with contactless payment" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,978, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to J.J. MACKAY CANADA Ltd. (New Glasgow, Canada).

"Parking meter with contactless payment" was invented by George Allan MacKay (New Glasgow, Canada), Gregory Emile Chauvin (Brookside, Canada) and Adrian Ignatius O'Neil (New Glasgow, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking meter is described that comprises components for providing parking meter functionality and a display for displaying parking information and a metal housing for protecting the parking meter components from an environment that has a display aperture through which the display is visible. The parking meter also comprises an...