US Patent Issued to 7-ELEVEN on March 25 for "Beverage dispenser fluid level sensor" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,258, issued on March 25, was assigned to 7-ELEVEN INC. (Irving, Texas).

"Beverage dispenser fluid level sensor" was invented by Pirooz Najafi (Plano, Texas), John Robert Keller (Plano, Texas) and Matthew O'Daniel Redmond (Denton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a sensor and a computing system. The sensor is coupled to a syrup line of the beverage dispenser and is configured to measure a pressure within the line. The syrup line is coupled at a first end to a syrup bag and at a second end to a pump configured to pump syrup from the syrup bag to an outlet of the beverage dispenser. The pump is operated using pres...