ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,403, issued on July 21, was assigned to 10X Innovation GmbH & Co. KG (Berlin).
"Filter holder and coffee machine" was invented by Jan Roesler (Berlin) and Rene Korte (Hannover, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter holder for receiving a filter with extraction material, in particular ground coffee, has a receptacle portion having a bottom and at least one bottom-side flow-through opening on which a valve for opening and closing the flow-through opening is arranged. The valve can be moved by means of a linear actuator and can thus be controlled to set the brewing time. Further provided is a coffee machine having such a filte...