ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,448, issued on July 8, was assigned to PepsiCo Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Beverage dispenser with beverage-level indicator" was invented by Steven Philip Moskowitz (North White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage dispenser having a beverage-level indicating system. The beverage dispenser includes a housing and a dispensing head arranged on the housing for dispensing a beverage into a beverage container. The beverage dispenser further includes a beverage-level sensor arranged on the housing and which determines a beverage level within the beverage container without contacting the beverage within the beverage container, ...