US Patent Issued to CROP'S FRUIT on April 21 for "Device for the automatic preparation of a food product and method of offering and/or selling such a food product" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,013, issued on April 21, was assigned to CROP'S FRUIT (Ooigem, Belgium).

"Device for the automatic preparation of a food product and method of offering and/or selling such a food product" was invented by Pieter Delbaere (Deurle, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device for the automatic preparation of a food product, comprising a mixture receptacle (5), in which solid ingredients are mixed, and a drive device (1-6, 16-19) to automatically tilt the mixture receptacle (5) in order to pour out the mixed ingredients into a refreshment receptacle (8) and to make them available to a user therein. Th...