ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,285, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Bunn-O-Matic Corp. (Springfield, Ill.).
"Touchless dispensing system and method" was invented by Prashanth Sankaran (Springfield, Ill.) and Keith M. Ripperda (Springfield, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network-controlled dispensing device is provided. The dispensing device may include a display, a scannable device identifier (e.g., QR code, RFID tag, etc.) that uniquely identifies the dispensing device to a scanning device, and a network device to establish communications with a server based, at least in part, on the scannable device identifier. The dispenser includes a controller to ...