ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,187, issued on March 11, was assigned to Municipal Parking Services Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).
"Parking meter system" was invented by Thomas G. Hudson (Tonka Bay, Minn.), Joseph M. Caldwell (Chanhassen, Minn.) and Richard C. Gage (Orono, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking enforcement system can include a weather resistant housing, a processor disposed inside of the housing, a memory disposed inside of the housing and coupled to the processor, a network interface disposed in the housing and coupled to the processor, a first camera disposed in the housing and facing outward towards a first parking space. The processor can b...