ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,650, issued on June 24.
"Robotic device for distributing designated items" was invented by Harry Fox (Jerusalem), David Azoulay (Jerusalem), Sergh Sapojnikov (Ashkelon, Israel) and Andrew C. Gorelick (Ashkelon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robotic device for distributing designated items to persons includes a motion unit to autonomously move the robotic device through a premise, storage for designated items, an item dispenser to dispense from the storage, memory modules containing recognition scans and payment information of persons located within the premise and information of the designated items. The memory modules cont...