US 11,961,354 B2
Automated preparation and dispensation of food and beverage products
Vipin Jain, Saratoga, CA (US); Venkateswaran Ayalur, Cupertino, CA (US); and Vijayasimha Doddabalapur, Foster City, CA (US)
Assigned to 6D BYTES INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by 6D Bytes Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on May 5, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/308,405.
Application 17/308,405 is a continuation of application No. 16/175,087, filed on Oct. 30, 2018, granted, now 11,017,624.
Application 16/175,087 is a continuation of application No. 15/422,260, filed on Feb. 1, 2017, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/290,355, filed on Feb. 2, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0256796 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G07F 17/00 (2006.01); G07F 9/02 (2006.01); G07F 11/16 (2006.01); G07F 13/06 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/0064 (2013.01) [G07F 9/023 (2013.01); G07F 11/165 (2013.01); G07F 13/065 (2013.01); G07F 17/0078 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automated food preparation system, comprising:
a server, wherein the server receives remote instructions from a cloud based management system;
a robotic arm assembly coupled to the server;
a plurality of software controlled hardware components coupled to the server for performing food preparation tasks,
wherein the server runs an application for controlling the operation of the robotic arm assembly and the software controlled hardware components and coordinating said operation of the robotic arm assembly with the software controlled hardware components, and
wherein, in response to an order from a user, the server receives first instructions interpretable by the server and executable by the robotic arm assembly and the software controlled hardware components to perform a series of operations to produce a completed food item specified in the order;
wherein at least the robotic arm assembly and the software controlled hardware components are controlled by the instructions from the server, and
wherein the robotic arm assembly and the software controlled hardware components are configured by the cloud based management system to produce different food items based on different recipes, wherein the recipes are only stored in the cloud based management system and not stored in the server.