US Patent Issued to Lancer on June 10 for "Method and apparatus for configuring and maintaining a beverage dispenser" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,616, issued on June 10, was assigned to Lancer Corp. (San Antonio).

"Method and apparatus for configuring and maintaining a beverage dispenser" was invented by Joshua Anthony Cavazos (San Antonio) and Roy D. Cole (Live Oak, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for configuring and maintaining a beverage dispenser (10) are provided in which an array of flow control icons (60) is presented on the same page as functional sections (62-68). The functional sections (62-68) allow assignment of a beverage component to a flow control element corresponding to a selected flow control icon, and other functions to be perform...