US Patent Issued to PepsiCo on May 26 for "Unattended beverage dispensing systems and methods" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,346, issued on May 26, was assigned to PepsiCo Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Unattended beverage dispensing systems and methods" was invented by Robert Crawford (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Sam Karol (Hawthorne, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Unattended beverage dispensers configured to dispense one or more beverages after authenticating a customer and associating the customer with a customer account. An unattended beverage dispenser may include a user interface with a biometric sensor configured to identify a biometric characteristic of a customer. A controller associated with the unattended beverage dispenser may authenticate a custo...