ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,356, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Brain Brew Ventures 3.0 Inc. (Newtown, Ohio).
"Method and machine for dispensing an individual formulation of a beverage" was invented by Douglas B. Hall (Newtown, Ohio), Joe Girgash (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Scott Dunkle (Cincinnati).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a method for developing and providing a personalized distilled spirit, or other beverage, to a user who responds to a collection of stimulus in the form of taste samples, smell samples, written, and/or visual representations. The user's responses to the stimulus may be compared to expert responses in a database ...