ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,165, issued on July 29, was assigned to Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Passing control method and apparatus" was invented by Miao Yang (Beijing) and Mingchao Li (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for vehicle passing control on a toll road. In an implementation, a method performed by a roadside apparatus comprises: sending, to a vehicle at a first power, a payment inquiry message for requesting payment voucher information of the vehicle that has completed a payment of a toll for passing through a gate without actually passing through the gate...