ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,578, issued on May 26, was assigned to Streetline Technology LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and media for vehicle tracking in parking areas" was invented by Anastasios Zografos (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments include systems and methods for pairing a user to an available parking space, the system comprising: a positional device; at least one sensory input device positioned on an infrastructure point located proximally to at least one parking space; and a central server platform comprising a server having a processor and a memory unit communicatively coupled with the processor, the m...