ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,227, issued on March 24, was assigned to LIBATION AFICIONADO LLC (Lutz, Fla.).
"Sample randomizer for blind testing" was invented by Bryan Gonzalez (Lutz, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample randomizer allows a user to have a set of samples from a corresponding set of sources to be physically randomized so that the user does not know which sample came from which source. The sample randomizer keeps track of the samples so that the source of each sample can be revealed after testing the samples. A covered rotating table is used to physically randomize the samples. Each sample is individually loaded into the table in a given s...