ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,400, issued on July 1, was assigned to Daifuku Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Baggage deposit machine" was invented by Kazushi Tsujimoto (Gamo-gun, Japan), Takuya Isomura (Gamo-gun, Japan) and Takashi Oi (Gamo-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to reduces a risk that a user of a baggage check-in machine is infected with a virus or the like, a baggage check-in machine (1) includes: an inner display (11) that displays an image which includes an operation target region and which is related to baggage check-in; an image formation section (30) that causes the image displayed on the inner display (11) to be formed as an aerial im...