ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,971, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to APEX INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Mason, Ohio).
"Dispensing and tracking system" was invented by Benjamin V. Savage (Lebanon, Ohio), Edward A. Fullman (Cincinnati), Saurabh Sarkar (Mason, Ohio), Christopher M. Hodapp (Cincinnati) and Richard Mathias Alden (Loveland, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispensing system including a dispensing component configured to receive a plurality of items thereon or therein, where the plurality of items are part of a single order. The system further includes a sensor configured to identify a location of each of the plurality of items on or in the compone...