US Patent Issued to THE HILLMAN GROUP on Sept. 8 for "Self-service kiosk having a programmed duplicate key fob dispenser" (Arizona, California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,454, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to THE HILLMAN GROUP INC. (Forest Park, Ohio).

"Self-service kiosk having a programmed duplicate key fob dispenser" was invented by Byron Keith Grice (Phoenix), Michael Kenneth Hart (Tempe, Ariz.), Michael James Schmidt (Gilbert, Ariz.), Brian David Rosner (Phoenix), Ari Bennett (San Francisco), Robert Foord (Lakewood, Colo.) and Bryan Keith Solace (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-service kiosk includes a housing and an imaging device in a key fob receptacle in the housing. The imaging device captures an image of a master key fob placed in the receptacle. The kiosk includes a...