ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,119, issued on July 28.
"Apparatus and method for media manipulation" was invented by Scott Colston (Dundee, Great Britain) and Jamie Luke Garrett (Scotland, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method and apparatus for storing media items at a storage zone, the apparatus has a storage zone for storing media items, a port region proximate to the storage zone for receiving at least one media item, and at least one media item deformer for deforming each media item that is transported along a transport pathway portion."
The patent was filed on March 27, 2024, under Application No. 18/619,027.
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