ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,316, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to BIG BELLY SOLAR LLC (Needham, Mass.).
"System and method of providing a wireless unlocking system for a battery-powered storage device" was invented by Ethan Matthew Schwartz (Sharon, Mass.), Thomas Richard Olsen (Natick, Mass.), Nisha Khand (Malden, Mass.), Jeffrey Thomas Satwicz (Winchester, Mass.) and David John Skocypec (Medfield, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system can include a battery-powered trash compactor or storage device that performs operations including receiving identification information via an external entity from a reader component. The reader component is c...