ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,414, issued on March 3, was assigned to Flo-Smart Beverage Solutions IP Pty Ltd (Braeside, Australia).
"Beverage dispenser" was invented by Conal Hartnett (Braeside, Australia) and Matthew James Dale (Braeside, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage dispenser for dispensing a beverage into a vessel, the beverage dispenser including a vessel-receiving region in which the vessel is locatable for receiving beverage; and a sensor arrangement for providing signals based on which a distance between one or more wall portions of the vessel, when located in the vessel-receiving region, and the sensor arrangement can be determined...