US Patent Issued on July 14 for "Systems and methods for creating beverages" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,846, issued on July 14.

"Systems and methods for creating beverages" was invented by Venkatram Prasad Shastri (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to beverages, and to systems and methods for creating beverages. In certain aspects, a beverage precursor can be contained within a gel, such as a carboxylate agarose gel or other gel suitable for human consumption. The precursor can be mixed with water to form a beverage. In some cases, a composition comprising the beverage precursor may also contain ice, e.g., a gel may be frozen or embedded in the ice. The ice may be heated or mixed w...