ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,947, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BANDAI Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Article accommodation device and article supply device" was invented by Hajime Kondo (Tokyo), Tatsushi Ikarashi (Tokyo), Nobuo Kurokawa (Tokyo) and Yoshihiro Murakami (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article accommodation unit which can be attached to an article supply device, comprises a main body capable of accommodating articles in a state where the articles are laminated; an operation portion provided in the main body; and a lock portion provided in the main body and capable of locking the operation portion so as not to perform a certain operation, wherein ...