ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,449, issued on Dec. 2.
"Personalized marking apparatus, system and method for container identification" was invented by Corey Albert Graves (Jamestown, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and apparatus for automatically marking beverage containers with various combinations of symbols to make them identifiable by their respective users in situations where multiple individuals are consuming beverages from otherwise identical containers. The apparatus includes a container detection space that is configured to sense a container placed therein, whereby the method is programmable so as to provide the unique identificatio...