US Patent Issued to Xenial on March 17 for "Drive through system with traffic management" (North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,528, issued on March 17, was assigned to Xenial Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Drive through system with traffic management" was invented by Christopher Siefken (Charlotte, N.C.), Israel Rivera (Philadelphia), Keith Shaibley (Lansdale, Pa.), Sean Wegeler (Lansdale, Pa.), Brian Jackson (Seabrook, S.C.) and James Davidson (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a drive through interface of a drive through system includes detecting a presence of a vehicle at the drive through interface based on image data of a portion of a lane at the drive through interface. The method includes, responsive to an order being pla...