US Patent Issued to PAOKAI ELECTRONIC ENTERPRISE on Nov. 18 for "Claw machine with automatic object placement function" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,768, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PAOKAI ELECTRONIC ENTERPRISE Co. LTD. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Claw machine with automatic object placement function" was invented by Ming-Shan Wei (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Tung-Ying Wei (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A claw machine includes a cabinet, an operating unit, a sensing unit and a control unit. The cabinet defines an inner space allowing an object to be placed therein, and has an output hole spatially communicating with the inner space. A chance area is defined nearby the output hole. The operating unit is disposed in the inner space, and includes a moving mechanism an...