US Patent Issued to Starbucks on Oct. 28 for "Software application and computer system for using personal receptacles" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,438, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Starbucks Corp. (Seattle).

"Software application and computer system for using personal receptacles" was invented by Angela M. Rosenwood (Seattle) and Jane J. Tsilis (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples described herein involve a system that can receive a request for a beverage transmitted by a software application. The request can indicate that a requestor of the beverage is to receive the beverage in their personal receptacle. The system can generate a digital instruction to create the beverage based on the request, where the digital instruction is configured to prev...