US Patent Issued to Avery Dennison Retail Information Services on July 29 for "Counting machine and methods of counting items" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,774, issued on July 29, was assigned to Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC (Mentor, Ohio).

"Counting machine and methods of counting items" was invented by Calvin Fung (New Territories, Hong Kong) and Dominic Tse (New Territories, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a counting machine may include a counting area configured to count a plurality of items. The counting area may include a fixed pressure plate, a movable pressure plate, and one or more sensors configured to measure the distance between the fixed pressure plate and the movable pressure plate, and a processor configured to determine the...