US Patent Issued to Municipal Parking Services on July 21 for "Parking meter system" (Minnesota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,734, issued on July 21, was assigned to Municipal Parking Services Inc. (Golden Valley, Minn.).

"Parking meter system" was invented by Thomas G. Hudson (Tonka Bay, Minn.), Joseph M. Caldwell (Austin, Texas) and Richard C. Gage (Orono, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking enforcement system can include a weather resistant housing, a processor disposed inside of the housing, a memory disposed inside of the housing and coupled to the processor, a network interface disposed in the housing and coupled to the processor, a first camera disposed in the housing and facing outward towards a first parking space. The processor can be c...