US Patent Issued to Smarte Carte on July 29 for "Vending track for pushable vehicle" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,263, issued on July 29, was assigned to Smarte Carte Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Vending track for pushable vehicle" was invented by Boerge Johan Svaeren (Minneapolis), Daniel Leigh Otterson (Stacy, Minn.) and Christopher Jay Rogney (Stacy, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more vending tracks (e.g., for strollers, carts, or other such vehicles) can be indirectly coupled (e.g., wirelessly coupled) to a single kiosk managing the rental transaction. The kiosk does not store instructions or other data for operating the vending tracks. Rather, management of the vending tracks is handled by a controller that is external of the kios...