US Patent Issued to Innovative Vending Solutions on April 8 for "Systems and methods for user control of electronic chairs" (New Jersey, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,216, issued on April 8, was assigned to Innovative Vending Solutions LLC (Clayton, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for user control of electronic chairs" was invented by Richard Ruggiero (Sewell, N.J.), Gregory Ruggiero (Sewell, N.J.), Matthew Marino (Mullica Hill, N.J.), Jonathan M. Ruggiero (Turnersville, N.J.) and Patrick Rice (Broadhead, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a vending machine and/or kiosk. The methods comprise: detecting a presence of a person in a seat of the vending machine; obtaining a full or partial body heat map for the person that was created based on sensor data generated by at...