US Patent Issued to Altopa on Jan. 13 for "Precision control and characterization of dispensed substances" (Nevada, Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,026, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Altopa Inc. (Vashon, Wash.).

"Precision control and characterization of dispensed substances" was invented by Erwin Stedronsky (Reno, Nev.), Lonnie Brent Poole (Vashon, Wash.), Nicole Wicker (Raleigh, N.C.) and Jesse Melton (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for dispensing a recipe includes measuring characterization data for components of a recipe. A signal representing an instruction to dispense the recipe is received at a processor operably coupled to a dispenser. In response to receiving the signal representing the instruction to dispense, an instruction set is generated ba...