US Patent Issued to ecoATM on April 7 for "Systems and methods for vending and/or purchasing mobile phones and other electronic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,004, issued on April 7, was assigned to ecoATM LLC (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for vending and/or purchasing mobile phones and other electronic devices" was invented by Babak Forutanpour (San Diego), Joemari Enriquez (San Diego), Jeffrey Ploetner (San Diego) and David Mersten (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Kiosk systems and methods for vending mobile phones and other electronic devices to, and/or for purchasing mobile phones and other electronic devices from, consumers are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, such systems can include subsystems for transferring data from, e.g., a purchased phone to a vended phone."...