Patents by Inventor Charles F. Studor
Charles F. Studor has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11272806Abstract: An automated beverage generating system is provided. The system comprises a dispensing mechanism from an ingredient for producing a specified beverage is dispensed, one or more electromechanical actuators operatively coupled to the dispensing mechanism and configured to effect movement of the dispensing mechanism in one or more directions, and a controller electrically connected to the one or more electromechanical actuators and configured to control the operation thereof. In response to receiving a request to produce a specified beverage, the controller is configured to control the operation of at least one of the one or more electromechanical actuators to cause the dispensing mechanism to move in at least one of the one or more directions.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: COSTA EXPRESS LTD.Inventors: Charles F. Studor, Stephen A. Miller, Angelo Fancello
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Patent number: 11250524Abstract: A system and method for facilitating the ordering and generation of a beverage. The system and method are configured to receive an electrical signal in response to the activation by a second user of an electronic link corresponding to a recipe for the beverage shared by a first user. The system and method are further configured to generate a user interface having a user-selectable or user-inputtable order field for allowing the second user to order the beverage. The system and method are still further configured to receive an order for the beverage responsive to a user input made via the order field, and The system and method are yet still further configured to command the generation of the beverage responsive to the receipt of the order, and to effect the presentation of the beverage to the second user at a specified pickup location following the generation of the beverage.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: COSTA EXPRESS LTD.Inventors: John Serafino Craparo, Charles F. Studor, J. Kevin Nater, Jeffrey William Mulhausen, Marwan Hassoun
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Patent number: 10966565Abstract: An automated frothing assembly. The automated frothing assembly has a wand module that includes an elongate member having an inlet, one or more outlets, and a fluid passageway extending between and in fluid communication with the inlet and the plurality of outlets. At least one of the one or more outlets extends parallel to a vertical plane that includes the centerline of the elongate member and at an acute angle relative to a horizontal plane that is perpendicular to both the vertical plane and the centerline of the elongate member. The assembly further includes an actuator configured to be operatively coupled to the wand module and to drive the movement of at least a portion of the wand module along an axis, and an electronic controller configured to be electrically coupled to the actuator and to control the operation of the actuator to control the movement of the wand module.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: BRIGGO, INC.Inventors: Charles F. Studor, Brent Clafferty, Stephen A. Miller, Marwan Hassoun, Pete P. Garcia, Lynn Warren Hamrick
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Patent number: 10638870Abstract: A system that generates brewed beverages may receive requests to produce specified brewed beverages. The system may include a scheduler that initiates and controls the performance of one or more chemical or mechanical processes to produce the beverages. While one chemical or mechanical process for producing a beverage is being performed, other processes may be performed for production of the beverage or another beverage. The scheduler may determine the time at which to perform each process, the time at which a beverage should be presented, the resources to be used to perform the processes, or the time at which to perform a cleaning process, dependent on an actual or expected demand for beverages, or dependent on a target time for beverage retrieval. Shared resources may be applied to the production of beverages for high priority orders, while partially completed beverages for lower priority orders are staged for subsequent advancement.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Briggo, Inc.Inventors: Charles F. Studor, J. Kevin Nater, Marwan Hassoun
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Publication number: 20190315614Abstract: A method of operating an automated beverage generating system. The method comprises receiving one or more electrical signals representative of an order for a specified beverage. The method further comprises translating the order into one or more steps required to generate the specified beverage. The method still further comprises entering at least one of the required steps into a dynamic sequence corresponding to a module of the system configured to perform that particular step, the dynamic sequence representing an order in which one or more steps in the dynamic sequence will be performed by the module for one or more beverages to be generated by the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Charles F. STUDOR, Raymond William HUDY, John S. CRAPARO, Marwan HASSOUN
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Patent number: 10315908Abstract: A method of operating an automated beverage generating system. The method comprises receiving one or more electrical signals representative of an order for a specified beverage. The method further comprises translating the order into one or more steps required to generate the specified beverage. The method still further comprises entering at least one of the required steps into a dynamic sequence corresponding to a module of the system configured to perform that particular step, the dynamic sequence representing an order in which one or more steps in the dynamic sequence will be performed by the module for one or more beverages to be generated by the system.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: BRIGGO, INCInventors: Charles F. Studor, Raymond William Hudy, John S. Craparo, Marwan Hassoun
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Patent number: 10271680Abstract: An automated frothing assembly. The automated frothing assembly has a wand module that includes an elongate member having an inlet, one or more outlets, and a fluid passageway extending between and in fluid communication with the inlet and the plurality of outlets. At least one of the one or more outlets extends parallel to a vertical plane that includes the centerline of the elongate member and at an acute angle relative to a horizontal plane that is perpendicular to both the vertical plane and the centerline of the elongate member. The assembly further includes an actuator configured to be operatively coupled to the wand module and to drive the movement of at least a portion of the wand module along an axis, and an electronic controller configured to be electrically coupled to the actuator and to control the operation of the actuator to control the movement of the wand module.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: BRIGGO, INC.Inventors: Charles F. Studor, Brent Clafferty, Stephen A. Miller, Marwan Hassoun, Pete P. Garcia, Jr., Lynn Warren Hamrick
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Publication number: 20180342022Abstract: A system and method for facilitating the ordering and generation of a beverage. The system and method are configured to receive an electrical signal in response to the activation by a second user of an electronic link corresponding to a recipe for the beverage shared by a first user. The system and method are further configured to generate a user interface having a user-selectable or user-inputtable order field for allowing the second user to order the beverage. The system and method are still further configured to receive an order for the beverage responsive to a user input made via the order field, and The system and method are yet still further configured to command the generation of the beverage responsive to the receipt of the order, and to effect the presentation of the beverage to the second user at a specified pickup location following the generation of the beverage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2018Publication date: November 29, 2018Inventors: John Serafino Craparo, Charles F. Studor, J. Kevin Nater, Jeffrey William Mulhausen, Marwan Hassoun
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Patent number: 10043226Abstract: A system and method for facilitating the ordering and generation of a beverage. The system and method are configured to receive an electrical signal in response to the activation by a second user of an electronic link corresponding to a recipe for the beverage shared by a first user. The system and method are further configured to generate a user interface having a user-selectable or user-inputtable order field for allowing the second user to order the beverage. The system and method are still further configured to receive an order for the beverage responsive to a user input made via the order field, and The system and method are yet still further configured to command the generation of the beverage responsive to the receipt of the order, and to effect the presentation of the beverage to the second user at a specified pickup location following the generation of the beverage.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Briggo, Inc.Inventors: John Serafino Craparo, Charles F. Studor, J. Kevin Nater, Jeffrey William Mulhausen, Marwan Hassoun
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Publication number: 20180208449Abstract: A method of operating an automated beverage generating system. The method comprises receiving one or more electrical signals representative of an order for a specified beverage. The method further comprises translating the order into one or more steps required to generate the specified beverage. The method still further comprises entering at least one of the required steps into a dynamic sequence corresponding to a module of the system configured to perform that particular step, the dynamic sequence representing an order in which one or more steps in the dynamic sequence will be performed by the module for one or more beverages to be generated by the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Charles F. STUDOR, Raymond William HUDY, John S. CRAPARO, Marwan HASSOUN
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Publication number: 20180132654Abstract: An automated frothing assembly. The automated frothing assembly has a wand module that includes an elongate member having an inlet, one or more outlets, and a fluid passageway extending between and in fluid communication with the inlet and the plurality of outlets. At least one of the one or more outlets extends parallel to a vertical plane that includes the centerline of the elongate member and at an acute angle relative to a horizontal plane that is perpendicular to both the vertical plane and the centerline of the elongate member. The assembly further includes an actuator configured to be operatively coupled to the wand module and to drive the movement of at least a portion of the wand module along an axis, and an electronic controller configured to be electrically coupled to the actuator and to control the operation of the actuator to control the movement of the wand module.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Charles F. Studor, Brent Clafferty, Stephen A. Miller, Marwan Hassoun, Pete P. Garcia, Lynn Warren Hamrick
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Patent number: 9950918Abstract: A method of operating an automated beverage generating system. The method comprises receiving one or more electrical signals representative of an order for a specified beverage. The method further comprises translating the order into one or more steps required to generate the specified beverage. The method still further comprises entering at least one of the required steps into a dynamic sequence corresponding to a module of the system configured to perform that particular step, the dynamic sequence representing an order in which one or more steps in the dynamic sequence will be performed by the module for one or more beverages to be generated by the system.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Briggo, Inc.Inventors: Charles F. Studor, Raymond William Hudy, John S. Craparo, Marwan Hassoun
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Publication number: 20170215631Abstract: A system that generates brewed beverages may receive requests to produce specified brewed beverages. The system may include a scheduler that initiates and controls the performance of one or more chemical or mechanical processes to produce the beverages. While one chemical or mechanical process for producing a beverage is being performed, other processes may be performed for production of the beverage or another beverage. The scheduler may determine the time at which to perform each process, the time at which a beverage should be presented, the resources to be used to perform the processes, or the time at which to perform a cleaning process, dependent on an actual or expected demand for beverages, or dependent on a target time for beverage retrieval. Shared resources may be applied to the production of beverages for high priority orders, while partially completed beverages for lower priority orders are staged for subsequent advancement.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2017Publication date: August 3, 2017Inventors: Charles F. Studor, J. Kevin Nater, Marwan Hassoun
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Publication number: 20170046904Abstract: A system and method for brewing and dispensing beverages may use customer profiling to select beverages to be produced and presented to a given customer and/or messages to be displayed to the customer, based on customer-specific information stored on a loyalty card, in a local system, or remotely. A user interface mechanism may receive input identifying the given customer. A controller may select a base drink recipe dependent on the customer's identity, and may initiate production of a beverage using the selected drink recipe. Each drink recipe may specify an amount of water, coffee, flavorings, dairy, and/or other ingredients, and may be further customizable to add or remove ingredients and/or to change an amount thereof, based on received user input. The stored customer-specific information may include a customer identifier, account information, a purchase history, a message history, drink recipes, and/or an email address for each of a plurality of customers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventor: Charles F. Studor
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Patent number: 9545170Abstract: A system that generates brewed beverages may receive requests to produce specified brewed beverages. The system may include a scheduler that initiates and controls the performance of one or more chemical or mechanical processes to produce the beverages. While one chemical or mechanical process for producing a beverage is being performed, other processes may be performed for production of the beverage or another beverage. The scheduler may determine the time at which to perform each process, the time at which a beverage should be presented, the resources to be used to perform the processes, or the time at which to perform a cleaning process, dependent on an actual or expected demand for beverages, or dependent on a target time for beverage retrieval. Shared resources may be applied to the production of beverages for high priority orders, while partially completed beverages for lower priority orders are staged for subsequent advancement.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: Briggo, Inc.Inventors: Charles F. Studor, J. Kevin Nater, Marwan Hassoun
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Patent number: 9533866Abstract: A method of operating an automated beverage generating system. The method comprises receiving one or more electrical signals representative of an order for a specified beverage. The method further comprises translating the order into one or more steps required to generate the specified beverage. The method still further comprises and entering each required step into a dynamic sequence corresponding to a module of the system configured to perform that particular step, the dynamic sequence representing an order in which one or more steps in the dynamic sequence will be performed by the module for one or more beverages to be generated by the system.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Briggo, Inc.Inventors: Charles F. Studor, Raymond William Hudy, John S. Craparo, Marwan Hassoun
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Patent number: 9499385Abstract: A system and method for brewing and dispensing beverages may use customer profiling to select beverages to be produced and presented to a given customer and/or messages to be displayed to the customer, based on customer-specific information stored on a loyalty card, in a local system, or remotely. A user interface mechanism may receive input identifying the given customer. A controller may select a base drink recipe dependent on the customer's identity, and may initiate production of a beverage using the selected drink recipe. Each drink recipe may specify an amount of water, coffee, flavorings, dairy, and/or other ingredients, and may be further customizable to add or remove ingredients and/or to change an amount thereof, based on received user input. The stored customer-specific information may include a customer identifier, account information, a purchase history, a message history, drink recipes, and/or an email address for each of a plurality of customers.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2010Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: Briggo, Inc.Inventor: Charles F. Studor
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Publication number: 20160249766Abstract: A method of operating an automated beverage generating system. The method comprising receiving electrical signal(s) representative of an order for a beverage, the beverage having a specified temperature associated therewith and includes a first and a second ingredient. The method further comprises determining an amount of the first ingredient to be used, the first ingredient having a first temperature associated therewith. The method further comprises determining an amount of the second ingredient and determining a second temperature for the second ingredient based on the amount and the first temperature of the first ingredient and the amount of the second ingredient so that the beverage will be at the specified temperature when presented to a user. The method still further comprises generating the beverage using the determined amount of the first ingredient and the determined amount and the second temperature of the second ingredient, and presenting the beverage to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Inventors: Charles F. STUDOR, Stephen A. MILLER, Marwan HASSOUN
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Publication number: 20160159634Abstract: A method of operating an automated beverage generating system. The method comprises receiving one or more electrical signals representative of an order for a specified beverage. The method further comprises translating the order into one or more steps required to generate the specified beverage. The method still further comprises entering at least one of the required steps into a dynamic sequence corresponding to a module of the system configured to perform that particular step, the dynamic sequence representing an order in which one or more steps in the dynamic sequence will be performed by the module for one or more beverages to be generated by the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2016Publication date: June 9, 2016Inventors: Charles F. STUDOR, Raymond William HUDY, John S. CRAPARO, Marwan HASSOUN
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Publication number: 20160027132Abstract: A system and method for facilitating the ordering and generation of a beverage. The system and method are configured to receive an electrical signal in response to the activation by a second user of an electronic link corresponding to a recipe for the beverage shared by a first user. The system and method are further configured to generate a user interface having a user-selectable or user-inputtable order field for allowing the second user to order the beverage. The system and method are still further configured to receive an order for the beverage responsive to a user input made via the order field, and The system and method are yet still further configured to command the generation of the beverage responsive to the receipt of the order, and to effect the presentation of the beverage to the second user at a specified pickup location following the generation of the beverage.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: John Serafino Craparo, Charles F. Studor, J. Kevin Nater, Jeffrey William Mulhausen, Marwan Hassoun