ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,573, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DT Whisky Solutions Inc. (Fort Worth, Texas).
"Methods and systems for secure, metered beverage dispensing" was invented by Amrit Singh (Uttar Pradesh, India), Nirmal Chudgar (Gujarat, India), Shawn B. Smith (Fort Worth, Texas) and Nagendra Palle (Danville, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for accurately and securely dispensing high value beverages are presented herein. A beverage distribution system includes one or more replaceable beverage cartridges mounted to a beverage dispensing device. Each of the beverage cartridges includes a fluid reservoir with an output port...