ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,561, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to WALGREEN Co. (Deerfield, Ill.).
"Remote trigger for security system" was invented by Kartik Subramanian (Chicago), Andrew David Schweinfurth (Chicago), Raymond Kim (Chicago) and Bryan Anderson (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for automatically securing receptacles of a retailer via an electronic lock include receiving a user request to reserve a receptacle, selecting a suitable receptacle based on one or more conditions, some of which may be specified by the user, and transmitting an electronic locking signal to secure, and thereby reserve, the selected receptacle. An associat...