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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
James P. Jacobs, Phoenixville, PA (US);
Vincent G. Yost, Harleysville, PA (US);
Assignee:
Intelligent Devices, Inc., Harleysville, PA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/48 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 1/48 ;
Abstract
A universal adaptor for use with electronic parking meters which provides these electronic parking meters with the ability to detect the presence of a parked vehicle and to adjust the position of the detector for accomplishing the vehicle detection, to gather statistics on the parking spaces and the meters, to alert the parking authority of meters that are expired in connection with vehicles still parked, and zeroing the remaining time off of any meter once the parked vehicle departs.