ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,280, issued on Dec. 16.
"Clean in place system for a beverage dispenser" was invented by Peter Ward (Tulsa, Okla.) and David James Keener (Tulsa, Okla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to automatically clean the lines of a beverage dispenser system by purging the beverage lines, then de-liming, purging again, sanitizing, rinsing and recharging the lines. The present invention has a series of reservoirs, pumps and solenoid operated valves all run by an automated controller which carries out the cleaning process without human intervention."
The patent was filed on Dec. 15, 2022, under Application No. 18/081,866.
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