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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 15, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Scott Juds, Everett, WA (US);
James H Halsey, El Dorado, AR (US);
Assignee:
IDX, Inc., El Dorado, AR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364479 ; 194217 ; 221-2 ;
Abstract
A vending device (10) that can respond to selection of various vending commodities during the vending process by recalculating an amount of time that yet remains in the vending process as a function of proration of an original amount of compensation and new calculation parameters that are associated with the newly chosen commodity selections. This newly calculated amount of time can then be displayed.