ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,998, issued on May 26, was assigned to Events.com Inc. (La Jolla, Calif.).
"Vehicle parking barrier access control system" was invented by Gabriel Lopes (Culver City, Calif.), Guilherme Henrique Sehn (Santa Cruz do Sul, Brazil), Massoud Mollaghaffari (Tigard, Ore.), Igor Cornelio Lira (Portland, Ore.) and Sohrab Vossoughi (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle parking barrier access control system (10, 40) uses a mobile smart device (46) (e.g., mobile phone) to instantly open any mechanical barrier (12) such as a gate or door to enter and exit a parking area with restricted access without preregistration and prepayme...