Patents by Inventor Alexander Makris Gruebele

Alexander Makris Gruebele 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).

  • Publication number: 20230090442
    Abstract: A configuration for an autonomous food preparation and meal production machine receives a menu order. A computer system of the machine retrieves from a database an automated recipe for fulfilment of the menu order and determines an availability of a threshold of ingredients to fulfill the menu order. The computer system transmits preparation instructions to fulfill the menu order to stations having controllers in a production line. The production line de-nests a vessel and moves it along a production line. The production line, in response to the controllers receiving the preparation instructions, automatically dispenses ingredients of the menu order into the vessel from dispensers, steams and heats the ingredients and places the vessel with the fulfilled menu order into a locker. The computer system transmits to a device a signal corresponding to the fulfillment of the menu order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander Makris Gruebele, Maxwell Emerald Perham, Yuri Alexandrovich Kolchinski, Tom William Gustav Nilsson
  • Publication number: 20230065548
    Abstract: A system for rehydrating a food item includes a housing, a casing, an actuator, a moisture source, and a plate. The moisture source includes an outlet and an enclosed vessel having liquid. The liquid is released by steam or pressure as moisture into a first end of a conduit. The system has a plate with a top surface, a bottom surface and an opening traversing between the two. A casing couples with the top surface of the plate. The second end of the conduit couples with the opening. The casing has a pivot point. An actuator couples the casing on a first end and the housing at a second end. The actuator moves the casing from a first position to a second position by rotation about the pivot point. In the first position, the moisture flows towards the plate and in the second position moisture flow is idled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander Makris Gruebele, Maxwell Emerald Perham, Yuri Alexandrovich Kolchinski
  • Publication number: 20230008257
    Abstract: A food preparation unit receives unit input in the form of an image selected by a user of a vending machine or client device application. The food preparation unit translates the image into a format that is recognizable by further components of the unit. The food preparation unit represents the image as a set of instructions for the components of the unit. The instructions comprise a selection of sauces to dispense, a dispensing method, and a dispensing nozzle. The food preparation unit identifies a starting location of the dispensing nozzle and dispenses the selected sauce from the dispensing nozzle in the form of the chosen image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Maxwell Emerald Perham, Alexander Makris Gruebele, Yuri Alexandrovich Kolchinski
  • Publication number: 20220130199
    Abstract: A system for dispensing food is described. The system has one or more cavities that are configured to hold food items. Each cavity has an opening and a movable wall opposite the opening. The cavities are supported by a support matrix that holds each cavity at a specified location. A punch with an actuation system is configured to align with a cavity at a specified location and extend to compress the cavity wall to dispense the food item in the cavity. A controller of the system receives instructions comprising a food item order. The controller determines the location of a cavity holding the ordered food item and transmits those instructions to the actuation mechanism so that the actuation mechanism aligns the punch with the cavity and extends the punch to dispense the food item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Maxwell Emerald Perham, Alexander Makris Gruebele, Yuri Alexandrovich Kolchinski