ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,257, issued on July 1.
"Human look-alike electronic filing cabinet and a system thereof" was invented by Cassandra Polk (Mesquite, Texas) and Meghan Polk (Balch Springs, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a human look-alike electronic file cabinet. The electronic file cabinet is configured to provide a secure filing system in offices and to replace paper-filing cabinets. The cabinet includes cameras as the eyes and nose, microphone as mouth, two filing slots for dispensing files and receiving files, a fingerprint analysis screen for authorizing users for interacting with the cabinet, speakers, paper ...