ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,992, issued on Sept. 8.
"Handicapped parking monitoring system" was invented by Marc Buoniconti (Pinecrest, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring handicapped parking areas including a stanchion disposed adjacent a monitored parking area and a monitoring assembly mounted on the stanchion and disposed in communicating relation with the monitored parking area. The monitoring assembly includes a control unit, which in turn includes a presence detector, a reader and a processor. The presence detector is operative to detect occupancy of a vehicle in the monitored parking area and the reader is configured to determine ...