ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,504, issued on June 17, was assigned to QUANATA LLC (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for item management" was invented by Michael Sungjun Kim (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including one or more cameras, a deposit region, one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform certain operations. The operations include receiving image data of one or more items inserted into the deposit region by a user, the image data captured by the one or more cameras wh...