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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2024
Bunn-o-matic Corporation, Springfield, IL (US);
Prashanth Sankaran, Springfield, IL (US);
Keith M. Ripperda, Springfield, IL (US);
Bunn-O-Matic Corporation, Springfield, IL (US);
Abstract
A network-controlled dispensing device is provided. The dispensing device may include a display, a scannable device identifier (e.g., QR code, RFID tag, etc.) that uniquely identifies the dispensing device to a scanning device, and a network device to establish communications with a server based, at least in part, on the scannable device identifier. The dispenser includes a controller to control dispensing of a product based on one or more product selections received from the server. The controller generates a dispense code in response to receiving one or more product selections from the server and presents the dispense code on the display. If the code received from the server matches the dispense code, the controller dispenses a product based on the one or more product selections received from the server.