US Patent Issued to Municipal Parking Services on Nov. 18 for "Device, method and system for detecting parking in a no parking area" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,701, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Municipal Parking Services Inc. (Golden Valley, Minn.).

"Device, method and system for detecting parking in a no parking area" was invented by Thomas G. Hudson (Tonka Bay, Minn.), Joseph M. Caldwell (Chanhassen, Minn.), Mark J. Moran (Woodbury, Minn.), James Conlan (Minneapolis), John J. Leier (Brooklyn Park, 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: "A parking enforcement device can be secured to a surface adjacent to the area designated as NO PARKING. The enforcement device can include a camera aimed towards the area ...