US Patent Issued to Starbucks on Nov. 4 for "Systems, methods, and devices for ingredient based dispensing" (Washington, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,802, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Starbucks Corp. (Seattle).

"Systems, methods, and devices for ingredient based dispensing" was invented by Jonathan Levey (Geneseo, N.Y.) and Ryan T. Bell (Mill Creek, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally relates to an ingredient-based dispensing system for creating customized beverages with ingredients (e.g., using various sauces, syrups, sweeteners, colors and/or flavors added to a base beverage). The ingredient-based dispensing system may include a volume-based dispensing system for automatically dispensing ingredients with a varying viscosity (e.g., sauces) and a time...