US 11,724,926 B2
Beverage container identification and dispensing control
Michael Rider, Lowell, MA (US); Francois Claude Raoul Silvain, Winchester, MA (US); and Gregory Lambrecht, Natick, MA (US)
Assigned to Coravin, Inc., Bedford, MA (US)
Filed by Coravin, Inc., Burlington, MA (US)
Filed on May 9, 2018, as Appl. No. 15/974,908.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/504,037, filed on May 10, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2018/0327243 A1, Nov. 15, 2018
Int. Cl. B67D 1/00 (2006.01); B67D 1/08 (2006.01); B67D 3/00 (2006.01); B67D 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC B67D 1/0004 (2013.01) [B67D 1/0412 (2013.01); B67D 1/0418 (2013.01); B67D 1/0877 (2013.01); B67D 1/0884 (2013.01); B67D 1/0885 (2013.01); B67D 3/0006 (2013.01); B67D 3/0048 (2013.01); B67D 3/0077 (2013.01); B67D 2001/0098 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. 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; and
control circuitry arranged to send or receive information regarding indicia received from a tag; and
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.