ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,757, issued on July 14, was assigned to Vacation Rental Parking Solutions Inc. (Mobile, Ala.).

"System and method for managing parking areas by way of preauthorization and forecasting" was invented by Sean Michael Bryant (Saraland, Ala.), Jason Michael Cruthirds (Mobile, Ala.), John Leo Strope III (Mobile, Ala.) and James Steven Weber (Mobile, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for managing a parking area of a rental complex is provided. Generally, a user may use the user interface of the system to input data pertaining to individual units of a rental complex, wherein each individual unit is associated with at le...