ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,982, issued on July 14, was assigned to Botrista Inc. (Dover, Del.).
"Automated beverage preparation apparatus capable of preparing layered drink" was invented by Yung-Hsiang Chang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Wu-Chou Kuo (Taipei City, Taiwan), Kuan-Chang Pan (Taipei City, Taiwan), Kai-Chung Hsu (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Jhih-Sheng Jhang (Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated beverage preparation apparatus includes: multiple pumps for extracting multiple fluid materials stored in multiple material containers, and pushing the extracted fluid materials to move forward; a fluid output device coupled with the multiple...