US Patent Issued to Municipal Parking Services on Aug. 5 for "Parking space detection method and system" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,802, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Municipal Parking Services Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Parking space detection method and system" was invented by Mark J. Moran (Woodbury, Minn.), Richard W. Kelley II (Corcoran, Minn.) and Marcus N. Schmidt (Minnetonka, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for managing parking monitoring and enforcement. In one aspect, a method of determining whether a vehicle is present in a parking space includes monitoring the parking space with a first vehicle detection technique utilizing image processing and monitoring the parking space with a second vehicle detect...