ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,167, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Intelligent Fridges B.V. (Nieuw Vennep, Netherlands).
"Intelligent cabinet" was invented by Leendert Willem Michiel Lobbezoo (Nieuw-Vennep, Netherlands) and Serge Robert Guy Kremer (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent cabinet for dispensing products contained therein that includes an outer wall, an inner liner defining an enclosed interior space adapted for housing an inventory of items, an intermediate layer provided between the outer wall and inner liner, and having a plurality of slots, and a system of modular cassettes including a plurality of cassettes where each cassette is...