ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,961, issued on March 11, was assigned to THE COCA-COLA COMPANY (Atlanta).
"Contactless dispensing valve system" was invented by Jason Franz Hejna (Atlanta), Michael Lawrence Connor (Atlanta), Steve C. Bacha (Buford, Ga.), Patrick Joseph May (Buford, Ga.) and Ronald Loren Kraynick (Alpharetta, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a beverage dispenser for dispensing a beverage in a contactless fashion. The beverage dispenser may include a number of adjacent dispensing valves with each of the dispensing valves including a nozzle and a contactless dispensing valve system. The contactless dispensing valve s...