US 12,030,768 B2
Touchless dispensing system and method
Prashanth Sankaran, Springfield, IL (US); and Keith M. Ripperda, Springfield, IL (US)
Assigned to Bunn-O-Matic Corporation, Springfield, IL (US)
Filed by BUNN-O-MATIC CORPORATION, Springfield, IL (US)
Filed on Oct. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/508,387.
Application 17/508,387 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2021/032988, filed on May 18, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/027,853, filed on May 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0041425 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. B67D 1/08 (2006.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 7/14 (2006.01)
CPC B67D 1/0888 (2013.01) [G05B 15/02 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/14 (2013.01); G06K 7/10297 (2013.01); G06K 7/10366 (2013.01); G06K 7/1417 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network-controlled dispensing device comprising:
a display;
a scannable device identifier on the display that uniquely identifies the dispensing device to a scanning device;
a network device to establish communications with a server based, at least in part, on the scannable device identifier;
a controller to control dispensing of a product based on one or more product selections received from the server, wherein the controller is to generate a dispense code in response to receiving one or more product selections from the server and present the dispense code on the display, wherein the controller is to initiate dispensing a product based on the one or more product selections received from the server in response to receiving a code from the server that matches the dispense code presented on the display, wherein the scannable device identifier is different than the dispense code; and
wherein the dispense code is a random alphanumeric sequence.