US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 13 for "Non-invasive automated beverage dispenser evaluation system" (New York, Missouri, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,094, issued on May 13, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Non-invasive automated beverage dispenser evaluation system" was invented by Romil Shah (San Jose, Calif.), Theodore Charles Bakanas (New York) and Cory Jines (Kansas City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for non-invasive beverage quality check and automated maintenance scheduling for automated beverage dispensers. The techniques include using a camera to evaluate performance of the machine and evaluate beverage quality using visual techniques. The system provided herein uses machine learned models to determine beverage quality and e...