ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,259, issued on Oct. 14.
"Locking system for exchange of items, services, and/or facilities" was invented by Jackson William Wegelin (Stow, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for generating locking codes. For example, a remote interface (e.g., hosted by a kiosk or a cloud service provider) may receive a request from a requestor for an unlocking code. The unlocking code may be used to unlock a lock, such as a lock integrated into or attached by a secondary means of attached to a containment component. The remote interface generates the unlocking code valid for a timespan. The unlockin...