US Patent Issued to SUBARU on July 14 for "Unattended commodity selling assistance system using vehicle, and vehicle assisting in unattended commodity selling" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,388, issued on July 14, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Unattended commodity selling assistance system using vehicle, and vehicle assisting in unattended commodity selling" 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 an in-vehicle camera, an image data acquisition unit, a door lock device, a notification unit, a communication device, and an identification unit. The image data acquisition unit acquires the image data on the image captured by the in-vehicle camera. The notification unit notifies a purchaser in unattende...