ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,946, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TriTeq Lock and Security LLC (Elk Grove Village, Ill.).
"Retail controller system" was invented by William Denison (North Barrington, Ill.) and Calin Roatis (Long Grove, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooler access control system locks a cooler when occurrence of an event is detected that requires limiting access to the inside of the cooler. Examples of such events include the loss of power to the cooler for a predetermined period of time, the opening of the cooler door for longer than an allowed time, the loss of functionality of a temperature probe and others. In an embodiment, a servi...