US Patent Issued to GATE CFV Solutions on May 5 for "Touchless and data management drink dispensing device" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,666, issued on May 5, was assigned to GATE CFV Solutions INC. (Sebastian, Fla.).

"Touchless and data management drink dispensing device" was invented by John Newton (Vero Beach, Fla.), Peter Brooke (Micco, Fla.), Jacob Lockwood (Vero Beach, Fla.), Dustin Hartsfield (Sebastian, Fla.), Michael Cheney (Vero Beach, Fla.), Gillian Callaghan (Vero Beach, Fla.) and Rory Pawl (Vero Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drink dispensing device including one or more processors, a drink dispensing item located above a drink container positioning area, and a first sensor to determine when a drink container is located in the drink container ...