Automated vending machine with customer and identification authentication

US11321962B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED · IE

Inventors

• Christopher J. McClellan · Grove City, US
• Jon C. Carder · Powell, US
• Kevin D. McCann · Lewis Center, US
• Benjamin Scott Rogers · Dublin, US
• Christopher Bryan Paul Barr · Gahanna, US
• Josef Salyer · Delaware, US
• Michael James Smith · Chadlington, GB
• David W. Nippa · Dublin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 22, 2020
• Grant date: May 3, 2022
• Expiry date: Jun 22, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06V40/178
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Implementations include actions of receiving consumer-specific data and ID-specific data from an identification presented by a consumer to a vending machine, processing at least a portion of the ID-specific data to determine one or more of whether the identification is unexpired and whether the identification is authentic, and serving the consumer from the vending machine at least partially in response to determining that the identification is unexpired and that the identification is authentic and determining that the consumer is authentic relative to the identification.