ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,661, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DARKO INC. (Bedford Heights, Ohio).
"Theft deterring product display" was invented by Andrew J. Creque (Macedonia, Ohio), Gina M. Lanese (Stow, Ohio), Jeffry A. Myler (Stow, Ohio), Allan N. Forchione (Canton, Ohio) and Troy Kollar (Parma, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure product display system and associated method can include a display secured with a lock, a dispenser including a digital key request code and an input configured to accept entry of a digital key, and an access cloud configured to transmit the digital key to a user device when the digital key is requested using the ...