US Patent Issued to Bunn Commercial on Aug. 4 for "Dispensing control system for accommodating persons with disabilities and method" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,196, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Bunn Commercial LP (Springfield, Ill.).

"Dispensing control system for accommodating persons with disabilities and method" was invented by Prashanth Sankaran (Springfield, Ill.) and Greg Miller (Springfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispenser that is configured to switch between a first mode in which the user interacts with external surfaces of the dispenser to make selections and initiate dispensing and a second mode in which the user makes selections and initiates dispensing using gesture controls. In some cases, the gesture control feature could be incorporated into an accessibili...