US Patent Issued to Keurig Green Mountain on June 2 for "Beverage machine with corner user interface" (Malaysian, Singaporean, Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,385, issued on June 2, was assigned to Keurig Green Mountain Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Beverage machine with corner user interface" was invented by Wai Kean Chan (Singapore), Mohan Arjonut (Johor, Malaysia), Soy Lee Loh (Johor, Malaysia), Fa Yong Zhong (Sichuan, China), John Couture (Burlington, Mass.) and Jason Scott Sabel (Northborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage dispenser includes a housing and a user interface disposed on a vertical corner of the housing. The user interface includes one or more buttons that are accessible from a front view and a side view of the housing."

The patent was filed on Aug. 25, 202...