ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,780, issued on July 22, was assigned to Bunn-O-Matic Corp. (Springfield, Ill.).

"Brewer communication system and method" was invented by Joshua T. Craig (Springfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A brewing device, a stand, and server for remotely monitoring a brewed beverage's status. The stand/or server includes a wireless communication subsystem to establish wireless communications with a remote brewing device. The stand/or brewer may wirelessly send one or more of the status updates regarding the brewed beverage server to the remote brewing device with the wireless communication subsystem. The remote brewer device establish...