ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,730, issued on July 22, was assigned to LUXSHARE PRECISION INDUSTRY COMPANY Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Vending machine and vending method for selling restricted commodities based on user identities" was invented by HuaBing Li (Shenzhen, China), Yu Huang (Shenzhen, China), ZhongYuan Lai (Shenzhen, China) and Jia Yang (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vending machine for storing and selling restricted commodities, and a vending method implemented therein. In the vending machine, a control module comprises a processor executing program codes to provide a vending service. A user interface is connected to the control module,...