ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,445, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to BARREL PROOF TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Murfreesboro, Tenn.).
"System and method for determining alcohol content within container utilizing container monitoring system" was invented by Brian Richard Anderson (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) and Keith Robert Smith (South Hadley, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein disclosed is estimating alcohol content within a barrel based on a determination of a loss of fluid within the barrel. The loss of fluid may be determined by a measurement from outside the barrel. An implementation may comprise receiving information regarding an initial state of a liquid in a cont...