US Patent Issued to Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions on July 1 for "Systems and methods for parking management" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,315, issued on July 1, was assigned to Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions LLC (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for parking management" was invented by Julio Valcarcel (Greensboro, N.C.) and Todd Child (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to manage a parking area. The system may include one or more tags; a license plate reader configured to read license plates; and a tag reader configured to, in response to a license plate read by the license plate reader, read the tag and determine whether the read license plate belongs to an authorized or unauthorized vehicle."

The patent was filed on Ja...