US Patent Issued to TOKAI RIKEN on Sept. 15 for "Locker apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,122, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TOKAI RIKEN Co. LTD. (Seki, Japan).

"Locker apparatus" was invented by Akihiro Sato (Seki, Japan), Yoshiaki Muto (Seki, Japan), Masami Umemura (Seki, Japan), Risa Yonenuma (Seki, Japan) and Yasufumi Ichihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a locker apparatus, an operation unit includes authentication means, and a control device locks a locking device in order to bring a door into a closed state except when luggage is deposited in a box and when the luggage is taken out from the box. The operation unit includes a reopening door button for giving an instruction to reopen the door. When...