Food and/or beverage item counting device

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United States of America

PATENT NO 12251033
APP PUB NO 20230009368A1
SERIAL NO

17782270

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The present invention provides a food and/or beverage item counting device to be provided in a food and/or beverage item provision system including a transport path that passes along a customer table to transport carriers each configured to allow a food and/or beverage item to be placed thereon, the food and/or beverage item counting device including: a first information acquiring unit disposed upstream of the table and configured to acquire information relating to each of the carriers on the transport path; a second information acquiring unit disposed downstream of the table and configured to acquire information relating to each of the carriers on the transport path; and a first calculating unit configured to calculate the number of the food and/or beverage items taken out from the transport path to the table, wherein each of the carriers is provided with identification information for identifying the carrier.

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  • KURA SUSHI, INC.

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Sugiyama, Naoyuki Sakai, JP 6 26
Tanaka, Kazuma Sakai, JP 13 61
Tanaka, Kunihiko Sakai, JP 206 1261

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