US Patent Issued to FUJI ELECTRIC on June 17 for "Beverage server" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,308, issued on June 17, was assigned to FUJI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Beverage server" was invented by Yuki Ninomiya (Yokkaichi, Japan), Yuuki Tokunaga (Yokkaichi, Japan), Ryuuichi Nagashima (Yokkaichi, Japan), Yukihide Mochida (Yokkaichi, Japan), Kenya Nagayoshi (Nagoya, Japan) and Michinobu In (Inaba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage server configured to make a beverage and dispense the beverage into a container placed therein. The beverage server includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information of the container placed in the beverage server, and a container identification unit ...