ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,092, issued on June 23, was assigned to GUANGDONG MIDEA CONSUMER ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Foshan, China).

"Valve body device, beverage machine, beverage machine control method, and related apparatus" was invented by Jinzhang Zhao (Foshan, China), Lixin Liu (Foshan, China), Zaisheng Guo (Foshan, China), Zhengjun Zhou (Foshan, China) and Shaoquan Deng (Foshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve body device includes a valve body assembly including a feed flow path and a plurality of discharge flow paths, and a valve core assembly rotatably provided at the valve body assembly and having a reset position and a plurality ...