US 11,730,304 B2
Brewer device with freshness monitor
Joshua T. Craig, Springfield, IL (US); John E. Thing, Springfield, IL (US); and Jacob P. Perry, Springfield, IL (US)
Assigned to Bunn-O-Matic Corporation, Springfield, IL (US)
Filed by BUNN-O-MATIC CORPORATION, Springfield, IL (US)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/8,922.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/900,963, filed on Sep. 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0076863 A1, Mar. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. A47J 31/00 (2006.01); A47J 31/52 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01)
CPC A47J 31/002 (2013.01) [A47J 31/525 (2018.08); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A brewer device comprising:
a brewer control system configured to dispense a brewed beverage, wherein the brewer control system includes a freshness monitor to generate a freshness status of respective brewed beverages dispensed by the brewer control system into a plurality of servers, wherein the freshness monitor is configured to prompt for user-selection of an identifier from a plurality of pre-determined identifiers for at least a portion of the plurality of servers and store the user-selected identifiers corresponding with respective servers of the plurality of servers;
a user interface including an output device to present the freshness status of the respective brewed beverages in the plurality of servers, wherein the output device is configured to present the user-selected identifiers corresponding to respective servers of the plurality of servers in conjunction with respective freshness statuses for the plurality of servers; and
wherein the freshness monitor is local to the brewer control system without establishing communications with any of the plurality of servers.