ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,939, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sparkpark AS (Oslo, Norway).
"E-scooter parking method and system" was invented by Thomas Braten (Fjellhammer, Norway) and Igor Pancevski (Oslo, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes method and system for notifying a backend service of the presence of an e-scooter within a parking zone for e-scooters. The method comprising the steps of a) transmitting a communication signal by a stationary field appliance first transmitter of a stationary field appliance b) detecting the communication signal by a mobile field appliance receiver of a mobile field appliance, c) transmitti...