Ross D. Blankenship, Managing Principal

About Ross D. Blankenship

Ross D. Blankenship is Managing Principal of Wins Parking, the employee-owned parking design, build and management company that has worked in the Vail Valley since 1962. He develops and operates commercial property in the Rocky Mountains: parking and fleet operations near a regional airport, a mixed-use commercial yard, a garage-condominium development and EV charging along the I-70 corridor. He founded Park Graph, ChargingNear.me and Recharged America.

He has filed 20 U.S. provisional patent applications, all patent pending, from April to May 2026. They cover autonomous vehicle parking, loading and charging; EV charging hubs and power routing; drone and aircraft safety near airports; and authenticated infrastructure for autonomous vehicles. Wins Parking is the assignee on 6 of them. His earlier filed work covers vehicle backup safety, tire-tread safety, inter-vehicle safety communications and real-time customer feedback.

He holds a JD from Washington University School of Law, which he attended on a full scholarship. There he received the Scholar of Law Award and won the ABA National Mediation and Negotiation Competition. He holds a BA from Cornell University, where he studied government and economics and rowed on the NCAA varsity team. He is the author of five books: The Business That Thinks; Automate, Launch, Retire; Dirt, Data and Decisions; The Intelligent Property; and Agent of Record.

Patent applications

20 U.S. provisional patent applications, filed April to May 2026. Each is patent pending. Provisional applications set a priority date; they are not examined.

Autonomous vehicle infrastructure (assignee Wins Parking LLC)

Agent-Mediated Reservation and Offline Physical Access Control (Apr 28, 2026)

Bystander-Responsive Landing Zone Projection System for UAVs (Apr 28, 2026)

Autonomous Vehicle Parking, Loading, and Charging Slot Control (Apr 29, 2026)

Autonomous Vehicle Cargo Handoff with Verified Compartment Access (Apr 29, 2026)

Drone and aircraft safety

Dynamic Drone Safety Corridors for Aircraft Approaches and Departures (Apr 30, 2026)

Authenticated Drone Safe-Mode Commands Near Aircraft (Apr 30, 2026)

Airport Drone Detection and Threat Scoring for Active Aircraft Corridors (Apr 30, 2026)

Drone-Aircraft Near-Miss and Strike Evidence Recorder (Apr 30, 2026)

Pilot and Air Traffic Control Advisories for Drone Conflicts (Apr 30, 2026)

Digital trust and multi-modal coordination (assignee Wins Parking LLC)

Digital Evidence Recorder for Autonomous Vehicle Operations (Apr 29, 2026)

Private-Property Air and Ground Traffic Control (Apr 29, 2026)

EV charging infrastructure

Autonomous Vehicle Dwell and Charging Scheduler (Apr 30, 2026)

Cross-Provider Autonomous EV Charging and Mission Roaming (Apr 30, 2026)

Robotic EV Charging Connector with Sensor-Verified Vehicle Coupling (May 1, 2026)

Dynamic Wireless Charging Lanes for Electric Vehicles (May 3, 2026)

Mission-Safe Bidirectional Power Dispatch for Autonomous Electric Fleets (May 4, 2026)

Software-Defined Power Routing for EV Charging Hubs (May 4, 2026)

Authenticated autonomous vehicle infrastructure

Authenticated Visual Infrastructure Markers for Autonomous Vehicles (May 5, 2026)

Authenticated Parking, Curb, and Charging Space Credentials for Autonomous Vehicles (May 6, 2026)

Autonomous Fleet Service Readiness Certification (May 13, 2026)

Earlier filed work

Vehicular Backup Safety System

Vehicular Tire-Tread Safety System

Inter-Vehicle Safety Communications System

Anonymous Real-Time Customer Feedback System

City pages by Ross D. Blankenship

Ross D. Blankenship wrote 155 Wins Parking city pages.