ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,944, issued on April 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM NORTH AMERICA Corp. (Valhalla, N.Y.).
"Automated product offering" was invented by Charles L. DuBois (Rochester, N.Y.) and James J. Dolce (Penfield, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automating a product offering presented in a consumer kiosk application for creating and order consumer photo-related products. An automated product offering system determines in real-time or near real-time the availability of products to be offered to the consumer and adjusts the display on the kiosk GUI to guide the user to select products that are currently available. The product availability may be s...