ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,315, issued on July 29, was assigned to Automatic Bar Controls Inc. (Vacaville, Calif.).

"Beverage dispensing system" was invented by Silas Veloz (Vacaville, Calif.), Ronak Ghandriz (Vacaville, Calif.) and Gabriel Dial (Vacaville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide a beverage dispensing mechanism that is configured to dispense a beverage at a flow rate of at least 2.5 oz/sec. The beverage dispensing mechanism includes a flow control module (including a top plate, a plurality of buttons coupled to the top plate, and a plurality of tube subassemblies), a handle, a nozzle module (including a nozzle, and a diffuser...