IP Library Granted Patent US 12,446,725
Granted Patent B2
US 12,446,725 · App. 17/262,920 · Granted Oct 21, 2025

Apparatus, method and program

Inventors: Kaishun Kihara (Tokyo, JP); Atsushi Terasawa (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: DAITO ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
A47J31/52A23F5/262A47J31/002
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Patent No.
US 12,446,725
App. No.
17/262,920
Granted
Oct 21, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An apparatus that allows a user to be provided with a beverage to grasp the taste of the user, including display means for displaying a range of selectable levels of a property relating to a taste of a beverage, receiving means for receiving a selection of a level of the property from the range made by a user, and obtaining means for obtaining beverage information corresponding to the received level of the property.

Claims (12)

1. A method performed by a coffee making device, comprising:

controlling a processor to:

control a display to display levels of properties relating to a taste of a coffee, including bitterness, sour taste, and sweetness, as a radar chart,

receive a selection of a level of at least one property of the properties from the radar chart,

search a database for a predetermined coffee recipe or a plurality of predetermined coffee recipes, corresponding to the selected level of the at least one property,

control the display to display the plurality of predetermined coffee recipes after the search of the database for the plurality of predetermined coffee recipes,

receive a selection of one of the displayed plurality of predetermined coffee recipes, and

control the coffee making device to execute a process for production of the coffee according to the selected one of the displayed plurality of predetermined coffee recipes.

2. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium that stores a program that causes the method of claim 1 to be executed for production of the coffee.

3. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising

receiving selections of the levels for all of the properties on the radar chart, and

searching the database for the predetermined coffee recipe or the plurality of predetermined coffee recipes, corresponding to the selected levels for all of the properties.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 2, 2025
From: DAITO GIKEN, INC.
To: DAITO ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
Reel/Frame 071286/0197 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 26, 2022
From: TREE FIELD INC.
To: DAITO GIKEN, INC.
Reel/Frame 059732/0649 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 25, 2021
From: KIHARA, KAISHUN; TERASAWA, ATSUSHI
To: TREE FIELD INC.
Reel/Frame 055018/0790 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-148563 · Aug 7, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20210235921A1 · Aug 5, 2021
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