US Patent Issued to Intelligent Fridges B.V on April 22 for "Method and arrangement for recycling a packaging purchased from a smart fridge" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,911, issued on April 22, was assigned to Intelligent Fridges B.V (Nieuw-Vennep, Netherlands).

"Method and arrangement for recycling a packaging purchased from a smart fridge" was invented by Lauri Huhtasalo (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for purchasing a product with a packaging from a smart fridge and recycle the packaging, wherein the method comprising the steps of identifying the consumer, unlocking a door of the smart fridge, opening the door, closing and locking the door, running a system inventory round in to detect which product that has been picked out from the smart fridge by the consumer, and chargin...