ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,957, issued on Nov. 25.
"Barmaster item inventory system" was invented by Paul Salvatore Mula (San Jose, Calif.) and Scott C Harris (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inventory management system for maintaining inventory of liquid containers. A first container storage device, in a stock room weighs bottles and gets unique IDs on the bottles. A second device also weighs and reads information in a bar area. A database stores identification information and weights from the first and second container storage device, and operating to determine when a first container has been lifted from said first container storage...