ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,709, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Fellow Industries Inc. (San Francisco).

"Coffee sieve" was invented by Jacob Alan Miller (San Francisco) and Jacob Daniel DiMiceli (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods and systems described herein are directed to a Sieve. The Sieve includes a removable filter that can be disposed within an interior of a hollow sieve body. The hollow sieve body has a first opening and a second opening. When the removable filter is disposed within the interior of the hollow sieve body, a first edge of the removable filter is situated on an edge of the first o...