ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,407, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Blackdot Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Robotic tattooing and related technologies" was invented by Yan Azdoud (Austin, Texas), Joel Richard Pennington (Austin, Texas), Eric Nelson Watts (Austin, Texas), Deniz Ozturk (Philadelphia) and Christopher Kelley (Georgetown, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic tattoo apparatus can be used to robotically apply tattoos. A customer can shop on an online tattoo marketplace to select designs created by various artists located anywhere. The online tattoo marketplace can process and manage payments, artist and/or customer profiles, bookings, tattoo design...