ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,042, issued on June 3, was assigned to BLENDTEC INC. (Orem, Utah).
"Blender control system" was invented by Thomas D. Dickson (Orem, Utah), David J. Throckmorton (Mapleton, Utah) and Cody Hardcastle (Lehi, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for a blender control system to monitor the usage of a blender system. The blender control system may decrement a remaining blend runtime and/or remaining blend cycle count each time that the blender is used. The blender control system may disable or partially disable at least some functions of the blender system once the remaining blend runtime and/or rema...