US Patent Issued to ecoATM on Sept. 1 for "Kiosk for evaluating and purchasing electronic devices and associated methods of manufacture and use" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,187, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ecoATM LLC (San Diego).

"Kiosk for evaluating and purchasing electronic devices and associated methods of manufacture and use" was invented by Babak Forutanpour (San Diego), Ted Ray Gooding (San Diego) and Robert O'Neill (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are various embodiments of systems and methods to evaluate a device and present a price quote to the user. In some embodiments, a kiosk can receive information from and/or about the device and provide an initial offer. If the user declines the initial offer, the kiosk can inform the user of a potential higher offer base...