ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,122, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Automated and self-service item kiosk" was invented by Subhash Sasidharakurup (Ranni, India), Srinivasan Hariram (Bangalore, India), Mehakinder Singh Oberoi (Ludhiana, India), Ashish Pal (Jammu, India), Rajesh Jain (Bangalore, India), Shanoop Sivadas (Thalassery, India), Himanshu Singh (Bangalore, India), Aniket Nagesh Dubhashi (Mapusa, India), Vinay P. Vaidya (Bangalore, India) and Debasish Das (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus of an automated and self-service kiosk that allows customers to select...