US Patent Issued to RIDEFLAG TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 5 for "Vehicle occupancy verification utilizing occupancy confirmation" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,724, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to RIDEFLAG TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Vehicle occupancy verification utilizing occupancy confirmation" was invented by Michel Papineau (Osprey, Fla.) and Mark Feltham (Burlington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system to verify carpool occupancy compliance for access to High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes, High Occupancy or Toll (HOT) lanes, or other vehicle-occupancy contingent rewards. Software and hardware devices are used with radio-frequency transmitter modules to capture one or more photo images of vehicle occupants and to perform boxed headcounts of humans i...