ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,328, issued on June 2, was assigned to AirGarage Inc. (San Francisco).

"Parking facility system for vehicle detection and identification" was invented by Josiah Kendell Lapolla (Falls Church, Va.), Anusha Datar (San Francisco), Scott Elliot Fitsimones (San Francisco), Jonathon Andrew Barkl (San Francisco) and Chelsea Lynn Border (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, tools and methods to allow for control and management of a free flowing parking facility. Accurate recognition of vehicles may be achieved by identifying a target time and location for capturing an image of the vehicle based on a predicted path of the vehi...