ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,087, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HERO HEALTH INC. (New York).
"Networked management of dispensables" was invented by Kutadgu Akdogan (New York), Kalyan C. Vepuri (Newtown, Pa.) and Christian Von Heifner (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system enables dispensing, tracking, storage, processing, analysis, management, fulfillment and/or commerce relating to dispensables, such as consumables. The system may include packages that hold consumables and function either independently or in concert with numerous smart configuration devices, such as tabletop machines or mobile machines, as well as remote servers, databases...