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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2024
Municipal Parking Services, Inc., Minnetonka, MN (US);
Mark J. Moran, New Richmond, WI (US);
Richard W. Kelley, Ii, Eagan, MN (US);
David E. Collins, Jr., Plymouth, MN (US);
Steven B. Lane, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Christopher W. Baldwin, St. Paul, MN (US);
Marcus N. Schmidt, Minnetonka, MN (US);
John J. Leier, Brooklyn Park, MN (US);
Ian T. Bui, Bloomington, MN (US);
Umarani Pandian, Durham, NC (US);
Municipal Parking Services, Inc., Minnetonka, MN (US);
Abstract
A parking meter system includes a plurality of parking space monitors, a central computer system networked with the plurality of parking space monitors, and a user computing device. Each of the parking space monitors includes 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, and camera coupled to the processor and aimed towards a parking space to be monitored. The user computing device is configured to transmit to a request for parking time, receive a purchase confirmation, and monitor a remaining purchased parking time which is synchronized to a parking timer countdown for a particular parking space where a user has parked that is being monitored by a particular one of the plurality of parking space monitors.