ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,812, issued on July 29, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. (Durham, N.C.).
"Expandable bagging system" was invented by John Ratcliffe (Durham, N.C.), Brad M. Johnson (Raleigh, N.C.), Robert Andrew Myers (Cary, N.C.) and William L. Dungan (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of expanding a bagging system are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by a bagging station device configured to couple to a terminal station device. The bagging station device includes an outer expandable frame, an inner expandable frame having an inner movable mechanism coupled between first a...