Patent ID: 9406086
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: G05D,G06K,G06Q,G08G

Claim Text:
1. A system for violation enforcement utilizing vehicle immobilization, comprising: a database configured to store identifying information for a plurality of target vehicles subject to immobilization; a license plate recognition system to identify a plurality of scanned vehicles and a geographic location associated with each scanned vehicle; a data server configured to receive the data identifying the plurality of scanned vehicles and the geographic location associated with each scanned vehicle; an output processor in operative communication with the data server and the database configured to process the received data and to compare the received data to the stored identifying information for the plurality of target vehicles, wherein the output processor is further configured to generate and transmit a notification to a recovery vehicle when identifying information for one or more target vehicles matches the identifying information for one or more scanned vehicles in the received data; the output processor configured to wirelessly transmit an immobilization control signal and a remobilization control signal, the remobilization control signal transmitted only after an owner of the target vehicle submits a required payment; a transponder operatively coupled to an on-board computer system of the target vehicle, and configured to receive the immobilization and remobilization control signals from the output processor; and wherein upon receipt of the immobilization control signal, the transponder controls the on-board computer of the target vehicle to automatically immobilize the target vehicle, and wherein upon receipt of the remobilization control signal, the transponder controls the on-board computer of the target vehicle to automatically return the target vehicle to a mobile state.