US Patent Issued to ecoATM on Aug. 5 for "Systems and methods for vending and/or purchasing mobile phones and other electronic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,420, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ecoATM LLC (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for vending and/or purchasing mobile phones and other electronic devices" was invented by Babak Forutanpour (San Diego), Joemari Enriquez (San Diego), Jeffrey Ploetner (San Diego), David Mersten (San Diego) and Ted Ray Gooding (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Kiosk systems and methods for vending mobile phones and other electronic devices to, and/or for purchasing mobile phones and other electronic devices from, consumers are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, such systems can include subsystems for preparing purchased mobile phones for re...