ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,343, issued on June 24, was assigned to UNICASK Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"System for managing storage-state data and ownership certification of by-the-barrel liquor" was invented by Youzao Dai (Tokyo) and Katsuhiko Tanaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing storage-state data of by-the-barrel liquor includes barrels to be filled with an unblended liquor, GPS sensors and IoT sensors installed on the barrels, and a server along with a processing program thereof, wherein the processing program: issues a unique barrel number for each individual barrel while recording on the server its basic data including the distillery ...