ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,692, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to air up group GmbH (Munich).

"Drinking system with injector pump" was invented by Rudolf Ernst (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drinking system includes a drinking vessel defining a receiving chamber for a liquid, a drinking straw, a fragrance reservoir which is loaded with fragrance and has an inflow opening for air and an outflow opening for fragrance-enriched air, and an injector pump arrangement which is connected to or integrated into the drinking straw. The injector pump arrangement includes a drive nozzle, an expansion chamber fluidically connected directly downstream of...