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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
May. 03, 2024
Municipal Parking Services, Inc., Minnetonka, MN (US);
James Paul Martin, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Mark J. Moran, Austin, TX (US);
Municipal Parking Services, Inc., Golden Valley, MN (US);
Abstract
A parking facility that includes two or more parking areas/levels/sublots that are subject to different parking rules and/or cost structures employs cameras to monitor exit events for each separate parking area/level/sublot that is subject to different parking rules and/or cost structures. Vehicle parking is monitored for each different parking area by reading a vehicle characteristic with a camera, such as a license plate reading (LPR) camera where plates of vehicles exiting each sublot can be read. As the vehicle is determined to be exiting a first sublot, it is removed from the tally for that first sublot and simultaneously added to the tally for the second sublot. Additional sublots are monitored and tallied in a similar manner.