US Patent Issued to AUTOMATED RETAIL TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 11 for "Automated side opening door for a refrigerated enclosure of a vending machine" (Texas, Oregon, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,946, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AUTOMATED RETAIL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Sarasota, Fla.).

"Automated side opening door for a refrigerated enclosure of a vending machine" was invented by James Edward Deaton (Georgetown, Texas), Linda H. Wu (Newberg, Ore.), John C. Serieka (Chicago), Lynn Warren Hamrick (Leander, Texas), Sean Raymond Lucas (Leander, Texas), William Warrenburg (Austin, Texas) and Brent Joseph Clafferty (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vending machine includes a refrigerated enclosure including a housing for storage of an associated pre-packaged food product. The housing has a sidewall with a sidewal...