Patents Assigned to SpotHero, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20240020738
    Abstract: A method for operating a parking facility includes accessing a data structure comprising an array of cells defined by a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows, wherein one of the plurality of columns and the plurality of rows is time of entry and the other of the plurality of columns and the plurality of rows is duration of parking session, and each cell of the array of cells comprises a cost, and determining a parking session cost for an individual vehicle by summing costs in a plurality of cells of the array of cells corresponding to a time of entry and a parking session duration for the individual vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: SpotHero, Inc.
    Inventors: Tanbing Yan, Gregory Stephen Svitak, Ryan Carlson, Geoffrey A.M. Hunter, Sudhir C. Vissa
  • Patent number: 11842591
    Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed a vehicle authorization system for a parking facility. The system includes a gate assembly and a communication system. The gate assembly includes a gate, a gate actuator configured to move the gate, and a gate controller that receives and transmits wireless long range signals. The gate controller is configured to actuate the gate actuator to move the gate. The communication system includes a remote server computing device that is positioned offsite of the parking facility and a gateway device positioned at the parking facility and communicatively coupled to the gate controller and to the remote server computing device. The remote server computing device provides the wireless long range signals to the gate controller via the gateway device such that a construction material of the parking facility and the housing of the gate assembly minimally interferes with the wireless long range signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Spothero, Inc.
    Inventor: Gregory Stephen Svitak
  • Patent number: 11587194
    Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed to a vehicle floating fleet vehicle system for determining a location of a user and one or more car-sharing vehicles. The system includes a server computing device operated by a floating fleet service provider. The server computing device includes at least one processor; a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; and machine readable instructions stored in the memory. The machine readable instructions cause the vehicle floating fleet system to perform at least the following when executed by the at least one processor receive a request for the one or more car-sharing vehicles, determine the one or more car-sharing vehicles in one or more nearby gated parking facilities, send information about the one or more car-sharing vehicles to the user, and receive a selected car-sharing vehicle in a nearby gated parking facility of the one or more nearby gated parking facilities from the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SpotHero, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Stephen Svitak, Mateusz Perlak