Patent 7993468 was granted and assigned to The Coca-Cola Company on August, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for altering an initiation time of an apparatus sanitation cycle based upon a base line flow rate. The method may include determining an actual flow rate through the apparatus, comparing the actual flow rate to the base line flow rate, and delaying the initiation time of the apparatus sanitation cycle if the actual flow rate exceeds the base line flow rate.