US Patent Issued on July 28 for "Coffee machine that grinds beans contained in capsules" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,713, issued on July 28.

"Coffee machine that grinds beans contained in capsules" was invented by Abdulmohsin Alrajhi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coffee preparation machine that uses capsules containing whole coffee beans. The machine removes the whole beans from the capsule, grinds the beans, places ground coffee back into the capsule, adds hot water to brew coffee, and then ejects the used capsule after brewing is complete. An illustrative capsule may have two compartments: a lower compartment that initially contains whole beans, and an upper compartment where the ground coffee is placed after grinding. Th...