ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,694, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
"Touch-free check-in kiosk" was invented by Seetharam Pandith (Bangalore, India) and Ajay Nagonda Nagarajan (Madurai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact-less check-in system is disclosed. The system includes a kiosk that includes a housing, a display, and a communication module. The system further includes one or more processors and a memory with instructions stored within instructing the kiosk to receive input signals from a user device, transmit display signals to the display based on the input signals, and perform one or more business f...