ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,631, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Relay Payments Inc. (Atlanta).

"Automated commercial parking authentication" was invented by James Ryan Droege (Atlanta), Spencer Barkoff (Atlanta) and Sergii Koval (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for automated commercial parking authentication. In one embodiment, a method can include determining a first request to park a tractor and a trailer, determining that a commercial parking site has a first available parking location for the tractor and the trailer, and causing presentation of a request to confirm a first parking reserv...