ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,079, issued on June 30, was assigned to Marvin Beck (Cleveland).
"Pet treat vending machine" was invented by Marvin Beck (Cleveland) and Victor Eggenberger (Sebastopol, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dog treat vending machine comprises a housing having two alternate dispensing mechanisms, respectively spiral method and rotating cylinder method, a light array having an emitter and a plurality of detectors, a controller device which is able to interface with a plurality of RFID tags and process feedback data generated by the RFID tags, and means for limiting the number of products dispensed in association with a selected one o...