ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,382, issued on April 15, was assigned to LensLogix Inc. (Jacksonville, Fla.).

"Automated product cabinet for inventory control" was invented by Hamid Anthony Darabi (Jacksonville, Fla.), James M. Scolaro (Jacksonville, Fla.), Jessica A. Richey (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Charles H. Bloodworth III (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated cabinet. The automated cabinet includes an inventory management system. The inventory management system keeps an inventory of a storage cabinet and send and receive electrical communications to and from the storage cabinet. The automated cabinet also includes the storage cabinet. Th...