ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,725, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DAITO ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).
"Apparatus, method and program" was invented by Kaishun Kihara (Tokyo) and Atsushi Terasawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus that allows a user to be provided with a beverage to grasp the taste of the user, including display means for displaying a range of selectable levels of a property relating to a taste of a beverage, receiving means for receiving a selection of a level of the property from the range made by a user, and obtaining means for obtaining beverage information corresponding to the received level of the property."
The patent was ...