ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,537, issued on June 10.
"Beverage appliance with pod recognition system" was invented by Nicholas Weber (Brookline, Mass.) and James Lynch (Georgetown, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is an appliance for making a beverage that can include a pod receiver, a camera oriented to capture an image of a code depicted on the pod, a processor and memory in communication with the processor where the processor includes programmed instructions that cause the processor to analyze a design section of the code."
The patent was filed on March 22, 2019, under Application No. 16/362,370.
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