US Patent Issued to UNE on July 1 for "Virtual bottle-service system for allocating drinks from a refillable vat of liquor" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,981, issued on July 1, was assigned to UNE LLC (Delray Beach, Fla.).

"Virtual bottle-service system for allocating drinks from a refillable vat of liquor" was invented by Jeffry R. Smith (Delray Beach, Fla.) and John M. O'Neill (Delray Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes a method of providing a virtual bottle service from an establishment to a user. The virtual bottle service is accessible by the user via an app on a smartphone of a user. The method comprises receiving, via the app on the smartphone of a user, a purchase request for a virtual bottle from an establishment, and after the receiving,...