US Patent Issued to Heineken Supply Chain on Feb. 24 for "Device for cooling a beverage comprising a primary and a secondary cooling circuit" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,357, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Heineken Supply Chain B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Device for cooling a beverage comprising a primary and a secondary cooling circuit" was invented by Petrus Johannes Van Geijlswijk (Voorschoten, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling device is provided for cooling a beverage in a dispensing line. The device comprises two heat exchangers for exchanging thermal energy between the beverage and a coolant fluid in a cooling circuit; the coolant fluid having a lower temperature than the beverage. Placing the two heat exchangers in series relative to the dispensing line, provides two-stage coolin...