Patent ID: 7894935

Claim:
A public use pet tag marking kiosk comprising: a housing; a tag receiver in a fixed position on an outside of the housing and accessible to a customer from outside the housing; a marking implement enclosed within the housing, the housing and tag receiver forming a protective barrier such that the customer cannot access the marking implement from outside the housing, the marking implement responsive to signals received from a controller; a tag holder within the housing, the tag holder configured to extend through the protective barrier via the tag receiver in response to instructions received from the controller, receive a pet tag from the customer from outside the housing through the tag receiver and retract with the pet tag to a marking position within the housing; and a graphical user interface coupled to the housing and responsive to the controller, the graphical user interface configured to prompt a customer to place the pet tag in the tag holder and to supply information about an image to mark on a pet tag.