US Patent Issued to Starbucks on June 9 for "System for automated color customization of beverages" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,285, issued on June 9, was assigned to Starbucks Corp. (Seattle).

"System for automated color customization of beverages" was invented by Jennica Mjelde (Maple Valley, Wash.) and Natarajan Venkatakrishnan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally relates to a system for creating color-customizable customized beverages (e.g., adding various color ingredients to a beverage to customize the color of the beverage). The system may obtain color mappings (e.g., manual color mappings) that map particular color ingredients to particular colors. The system can generate a three-dimensional color map based on the co...