ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,112, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Marmon Foodservice Technologies Inc. (Osseo, Minn.).
"Beverage dispensing apparatus" was invented by Mark Miller (Villa Park, Ill.), David Njaastad (Palatine, Ill.), Zachary Dresser (Batavia, Ill.), Slawomir Kielian (Des Plaines, Ill.), James Bendig (Naperville, Ill.), Steve Miller (South Elgin, Ill.) and Kurt Zoellick (Oak Park, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an automated beverage dispensing system, a conveyance system defines a plurality of cup locations and operates to sequentially move the plurality of cup locations through a plurality of indexed locations. A cup dispensing system is ...