US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Feb. 17 for "Unattended commodity selling assistance system using vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,344, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Unattended commodity selling assistance system using vehicle" was invented by Hideaki Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unattended commodity selling assistance system using a vehicle. The vehicle includes a trunk, one or more vehicle mounted cameras, an image data acquisition unit, an identification unit, a notification unit, and a communication device. The trunk is configured to provide room for a commodity. The one or more vehicle mounted cameras configured to capture an image of a surrounding view of the vehicle and an image of an inside view of the trunk. ...