US Patent Issued to Frogparking on July 21 for "Vehicle presence detection system" (New Zealander Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,774, issued on July 21, was assigned to Frogparking Ltd. (Palmerston North, New Zealand).

"Vehicle presence detection system" was invented by Donald H. Sandbrook (Palmerston North, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle presence detection system for determining whether a parking space is vacant or occupied and utilizing this information to guide vehicles to available parking spaces. generally includes a LIDAR device, a cloud-based processing unit, a database, and a guidance light. The LIDAR device generally includes a light emitter, a light sensor, a CPU, a memory unit, and a communications device. The LIDAR device dete...