US Patent Issued to Municipal Parking Services on May 27 for "Integrated mobile parking application and smart parking meter system" (Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,307, issued on May 27, was assigned to Municipal Parking Services Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Integrated mobile parking application and smart parking meter system" was invented by Mark J. Moran (New Richmond, Wis.), Richard W. Kelley II (Eagan, Minn.), David E. Collins Jr. (Plymouth, Minn.), Steven B. Lane (Maple Grove, Minn.), Christopher W. Baldwin (St. Paul, Minn.), Marcus N. Schmidt (Minnetonka, Minn.), John J. Leier (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), Ian T. Bui (Bloomington, Minn.) and Umarani Pandian (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking meter system includes a plurality of parking space monitors, a central computer system...