Pepsico, Inc.

Purewick Corporation

Medico Invest Ag

Leanne Yip Heung Win

Bruno Telesca

Alexander David Norman

Martyn Thomas Mitchell

Herbert Bechtold

Terry Tae-il Chung

Andrew Robert Taylor

Samuel Edmund Whittome

Emily Lucy Triggs

Graham Robert Downing

Kamaal De Silva

William W Segiet

Xuejun Li

Frédéric Gabriel

A vending machine includes a housing defining a product storage compartment for storing products. The housing of the vending machine includes a delivery portal and a front portion having a transparent panel configured to allow a consumer to view the products within the product storage compartment. A row of products is arranged within the product storage compartment. A proximity sensor is arranged within the product storage compartment and corresponds to the row of products. The proximity sensor is configured to detect a hand of a consumer within a predetermined detection distance of the proximity sensor, and a product in the row of products is selected when the hand of the consumer is detected within the predetermined detection distance of the proximity sensor. The vending machine includes a dispensing mechanism configured to convey the selected product to the delivery portal.

Contactless product dispensing systems and methods

A beverage can with an ingredient chamber for storing functional ingredients separately from a base beverage until the beverage can is opened by a consumer. The ingredient chamber may be disposed on a can end of the beverage can. The ingredient chamber may be broken open to release functional ingredients automatically when the beverage can is opened by the consumer. In some embodiments, the ingredient chamber includes a membrane that forms a sealed cavity. In some embodiments, the ingredient chamber includes a deformed cavity of the can end.

Beverage can with ingredient chamber

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

Leanne Yip Heung Win