ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,046, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Positioning system for a beverage dispenser" was invented by Eddy Zhou (Shanghai) and Zhihua Liu (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage brewing system includes a housing, a component tower extending from the housing, a brewing basket mounting bracket rotatably attached to the component tower, a brewing basket module removably accommodated within the brewing basket mounting bracket between an inserted position and a removed position, a controller provided within the housing, and a locking assembly provided within the comp...