ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,246, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ZENBLEN INC. (Chicago).
"Systems and methods for making blended drinks" was invented by Xinyuan Zhang (Chicago), Constantine Bovalis (Chicago), Daniel Bernacki (Addison, Ill.) and Rehman Merali (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for making blended drinks are disclosed. In some embodiments, the system is a blended drink kiosk that can include an exterior housing includes multiple segregated sections with independent thermal control. In some embodiments, the blended drink kiosk includes one or more pumps to dispense liquid ingredients in a metered fashion, a solid dispens...