US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Nov. 3 for "System for remote retrieval and insertion of contents within individually secured containers" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,522, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System for remote retrieval and insertion of contents within individually secured containers" was invented by Timothy Scott Murphy (Charlotte, N.C.) and Paul Martin Mattison (Sherrills Ford, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Remote access to secured containers is provided by a user interface apparatus having an associated receptacle for receiving physical items delivered from and to the remote secured container. Delivery of the physical items to and from the user interface device's receptacle and the secure container may be accomplished by a robotic mec...