US Patent Issued to TRANSFORM SR BRANDS on Aug. 25 for "Method and apparatus for using gestures in a refrigerator dispensing system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,648, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TRANSFORM SR BRANDS LLC (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

"Method and apparatus for using gestures in a refrigerator dispensing system" was invented by Puneet Shivam (Schaumburg, Ill.) and Angel Favila (Lake in the Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigeration device includes a refrigerated compartment, a door that seals the compartment, a dispenser opening in an exterior surface of the door, and a dispenser outlet in the opening. The refrigeration device also includes a reservoir configured to hold a substance and a conveyor configured to convey the substance from the reservoir to the disp...