ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,314, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Parking management apparatus, parking management system, parking management method and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Kazuki Ogata (Tokyo), Tetsuro Hasegawa (Tokyo), Hiroaki Aminaka (Tokyo), Kosei Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Kei Yanagisawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the present disclosure is to provide a parking management apparatus and the like each adapted to control traffic congestion near parking lots and perform management of parking lots more efficiently. A parking management apparatus includes a parking-lot-inside-state meas...