ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,279, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Trinity Axis Inc. (Harleysville, Pa.).

"Server connectivity for a dispensing machine and related processes" was invented by Jeremiah Divyan David (Tamil Nadu, India) and David D. Davidar (Schwenksville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to server connectivity for a dispensing machine and related processes such as mapping of a vending machine to a location via a network server and software application using an optical code; updating a planogram for a vending machine via a network server; updating inventory/pricing for items in a vending machine...