ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,358, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Parking lot management apparatus, parking lot management method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Masayasu Hirata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking lot management apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a parking lot management unit configured to manage a use status of a parking lot in a facility; a user information management unit configured to associate facility use information of a user who uses the facility with a vehicle number of a vehicle used by the user and manage the associated information; a detection unit ...