ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,332, issued on July 14, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Self-service kiosk inventory control" was invented by Paul Mattison (Sherrills Ford, N.C.) and Matthew E. Williams (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arrangements for self-service kiosk inventory control are provided. In some aspects, note data may be received by a computing platform from a self-service kiosk and may include note identifiers. The computing platform may monitor the self-service kiosk for a triggering event. Responsive to detecting the triggering event, the computing platform may generate and send an instruction to the self-ser...