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US 11,724,926 B2Granted
Beverage container identification and dispensing control
AssigneeCoravin, Inc.
InventorsMichael Rider, Francois Claude Raoul Silvain, Gregory Lambrecht
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Abstract
A system and method for dispensing beverage from a container, such as wine from a wine bottle. An identification element may be secured to a beverage container and include a tag and optically readable code that uniquely identify the container. A dispenser may dispense beverage from a container, and be able to read the tag of the identification element. Information regarding characteristics of beverage in the beverage container may be associated with a corresponding identification element and include a brand, type, vintage or volume of beverage in the container.
Claims21
A beverage dispensing system, comprising:
- a beverage dispenser including;
- at least one conduit to deliver gas into a container holding a beverage and to receive beverage from the container for dispensing;
- at least one valve to control gas flow into the container or beverage flow out of the container via the at least one conduit;
- a non-optical reader arranged to non-optically read information from a tag including indicia that uniquely identifies the tag from other tags;
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- control circuitry arranged to send or receive information regarding indicia received from a tag;
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- a single identification element secured by adhesive to a beverage container, the identification element including a tag arranged to provide information to the non-optical reader including indicia that uniquely identifies the tag from other tags, and an optically-readable code that is machine readable by a device that optically images the code, the optically-readable code including an identifier that uniquely identifies the optically-readable code from other codes,
- wherein the beverage dispenser is arranged to be disengaged from and reengaged with a beverage container to which the identification element is secured, and
- wherein the control circuitry is arranged to use the indicia of the identification element to obtain beverage-specific information for the beverage in the beverage container to which the identification element is secured, and to use the beverage-specific information to control a dispense rate at which beverage is dispensed from the beverage container or a pressure in the container for dispensing the beverage.
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A beverage management system comprising:
- a beverage dispenser including;
- at least one conduit to deliver gas into a container holding a beverage and to receive beverage from the beverage container for dispensing;
- at least one valve to control gas flow into the container or beverage flow out of the beverage container via the at least one conduit;
- a reader arranged to non-optically read information from a tag including indicia that uniquely identifies the tag from other tags or to optically read an optically-readable code that includes an identifier that uniquely identifies the optically-readable code from other codes;
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- control circuitry arranged to send or receive information regarding indicia of a tag or an identifier of an optically-readable code;
- a plurality of identification elements each arranged to be secured to a beverage container, each identification element including a tag arranged to provide information to a non-optical reader including indicia that uniquely identifies the tag from other tags, and an optically-readable code that is machine readable by a device that optically images the code, the optically-readable code including an identifier that uniquely identifies the optically-readable code from other codes;
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- a computer device including a memory to store a plurality of records each corresponding to an identification element, each of the plurality of records including information regarding a beverage in a beverage container to which a corresponding identification element is secured,
- wherein the control circuitry is arranged to use the indicia or identifier of an identification element to obtain beverage-specific information for the beverage in the beverage container to which the identification element is secured, and to use the beverage-specific information to control a dispense rate at which beverage is dispensed from the container or a pressure in the beverage container for dispensing the beverage.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.