US Patent Issued to ecoATM on June 3 for "Systems and methods for vending and/or purchasing mobile phones and other electronic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,259, issued on June 3, 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) and David Mersten (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A consumer-operated kiosk can include an inspection area configured to receive a first device from a user. The kiosk can include an imaging device configured to image the first device when the first device is positioned within the inspection area. In some embodiments, the kiosk includes a vending apparatus configured...