ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,357, issued on March 3, was assigned to ASAHI GROUP HOLDINGS LTD. (Tokyo) and ASAHI BREWERIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Replaceable component for a beverage container, a combination of a replaceable component for a beverage container and a beverage container, and a method of using a replaceable component for a beverage container" was invented by Tomohisa Miyatani (Ibaraki, Japan), Tsutomu Maeda (Ibaraki, Japan), Masanori Yamagishi (Tokyo) and Motohiro Inagaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A replaceable component for a beverage container to be attached to a beverage extraction pipe of the beverage container is provided. The replaceable c...