US Patent Issued to SodaX on Nov. 3 for "Vending machine system" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,530, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SodaX Pty Ltd (Scoresby, Australia).

"Vending machine system" was invented by Andrew Donaghey (Mulgrave, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for remotely controlling a CO2 gas cylinder vending machine system, the method including displaying a remote vending machine user interface on a display of a user device, receiving on the user device user input indicating a desire to engage with the vending machine system to perform at least one of the following operations (a) return a CO2 cylinder; (b) purchase a CO2 cylinder; or (c) exchange a CO2 cylinder. The method including transmitting t...