ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,964, issued on April 14, was assigned to GLORY LTD. (Himeji, Japan).
"Item take-out apparatus and item take-out system" was invented by Noriyuki Nakagami (Himeji, Japan), Osamu Ito (Himeji, Japan) and Andreas Steinlin (Himeji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order for various styles of selling items in stores, an item take-out apparatus from which a user takes out an item is provides with: a storage unit that stores items therein; a plurality of take-out ports through which the user takes out an item from inside the item take-out apparatus; and a transport unit configured to extract an item from the storage unit and transpor...