ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,400, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Q2C NV (Bruges, Belgium).

"Systems and methods for performing parking policy enforcement using a mobile device" was invented by Jean Lambert (Sainte-Catherine, Canada), Yannick Aublet (Montreal, Canada) and Maxime Bousquet (Montreal, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Performing parking policy enforcement using a mobile device includes presenting a set of street-and-zone pairs, each street-and-zone pair identifying a street and a zone within which at least a portion of the street is located, the street and the zone, in combination, being associated with one or more parking rules. A street-...