US Patent Issued to ecoATM on May 13 for "Kiosk for evaluating and purchasing used electronic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,059, issued on May 13, was assigned to ecoATM LLC (San Diego).

"Kiosk for evaluating and purchasing used electronic devices" was invented by Babak Forutanpour (San Diego), Jeffrey Ploetner (San Diego), Robert O'Neil (San Diego) and Neil Vesco (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Consumer operated kiosks for recycling electronic devices are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the kiosk includes a rotatable inspection plate configured to receive an electronic device when the inspection plate is in a first position. The kiosk can include a camera having a field of view including at least a portion of the inspection plate. The ki...