ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,988, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to BOTRISTA INC. (Dover, Del.).

"Mesh network around core store with beverage robot and associated systems and methods" was invented by Wu-Chou Kuo (San Francisco), Yu-Wei Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Alexander Milton Friedman (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating a mesh network of beverage robots with one or more core vending locations are disclosed herein. For example, the method can include receiving an order for a beverage to be prepared by one or more beverage robots in a first vending location, wherein the beverage is associated with a recipe t...