ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,961, issued on April 21, was assigned to IONETWORKS INC. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"License plate identification system and method thereof" was invented by Ting Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Hung Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ming-Hsiao Yao (New Taipei, Taiwan), Kuan-Chieh Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Szu-Tien Yu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a license plate identification system and method thereof. The license plate identification system comprises at least a server apparatus storing at least one license plate picture file to be identified and a plurality of license plate sample ...