Patent ID: 11861557
Assignee: AWARE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system for on-premise automated inventory control of liquid dispensing containers, the system comprising:
at least one inventory tracking device; and
a processing unit coupled to a memory storage, the processing unit being operative to perform the following:
associate the at least one inventory tracking device with at least one liquid dispensing container, the at least one inventory tracking device comprising one or more sensors arranged along a length of a ball chamber retaining a ball bearing, wherein at least one of the one or more sensors are capable of being actuated by translation of the ball bearing along an entire length of the ball chamber, wherein the ball chamber is in fluid communication with the liquid dispensing container,
receive individual inventory data from the at least one inventory tracking device, the at least one inventory tracking device in operative communication with the processing unit over a first network,
assemble the individual inventory data into aggregated inventory data,
process the aggregated inventory data into the following:
parsed inventory data configured to be transmitted to a centralized server, and
local inventory data configured to be stored in the memory storage,

transmit the local inventory data in the memory storage, connect to the centralized server over a second network,
receive a request to transmit the parsed inventory data, and
transmit, based on the request, the parsed inventory data to the centralized server.