US Patent Issued to The Coca-Cola on March 24 for "Beverage dispenser with advanced portion control and point-of-sale integration" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,731, issued on March 24, was assigned to The Coca-Cola Co. (Atlanta).

"Beverage dispenser with advanced portion control and point-of-sale integration" was invented by Daniel Quartarone (Hoschton, Ga.), Quyen Tran (Atlanta), Jeff Neaves (Duluth, Ga.), Austin Igleheart (Atlanta), David Vogt (Atlanta), Brian Salvati (Atlanta) and Elaine Von Uffel (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage dispensing system is configured to facilitate communication between a point-of-sale terminal and a beverage dispenser for receiving and fulfilling beverage orders. The dispensing system comprises a translation server that maps beverage orders ...