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Certain technologies, like the automated license plate reader system (ALPR), have been used to automatically record data like license plate numbers, location, time, date, and/or photos of any vehicle visible. Thisdata may be uploaded to a central repository to be used with a variety of applications. An application may contain law enforcement applications to find out where a vehicle has been previously, to establish whether a specific vehicle was in the scene of an incident, or to discover the patterns of travel so that they are able to dig further into criminal activity. A different application could be to work of the use of a “hotlist” of identifications for stolen vehicles. The hotlist may be loaded into an ALPR system by law enforcement agencies to assist in the look for stolen vehicles as well as criminally related vehicles.
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- Japan Patent Office (JPO) – with access to machine translations of Japanese patents.
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) offers PATENTSCOPE with a full-text search of published international patent applications and machine translations for some documents, as well as a list of international patent databases.
- Korean Intellectual Property Rights Information Service (KIPRIS)
- State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) with machine translation of Chinese patents.
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