US Patent Issued to EVOCA on July 14 for "Stir stick dispenser for a beverage vending machine and method for dispensing stir sticks" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,716, issued on July 14, was assigned to EVOCA S.P.A. (Valbrembo, Italy).

"Stir stick dispenser for a beverage vending machine and method for dispensing stir sticks" was invented by Dan Alexie Sirbu Villa (Valbrembo, Italy) and Alberto Crippa (Valbrembo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stir stick dispenser (30) and a method for dispensing stir sticks (2) in a beverage vending machine (A), whereby a stir stick (2) is extracted from a stack (4) of stir sticks (2) via an extractor (31) reciprocatingly movable between a retracted rest position and an advanced extraction position and is expelled by moving it away from the extractor ...