US Patent Issued to Keurig Green Mountain on March 3 for "Pod stabilizer for beverage machine" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,284, issued on March 3, was assigned to Keurig Green Mountain Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Pod stabilizer for beverage machine" was invented by Nicholas George Ioannidis (Tewksbury, Mass.), Robert Dana Cassano (Natick, Mass.) and Kevin Scott Stillerman (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage machine and method in which a pod is positioned relative to a camera as a brew chamber moves to a closed position so the pod can be imaged prior to brew chamber closure. A pod stabilizer may urge a pod to be received by a pod receiver of the brew chamber before the brew chamber is closed and so as to properly position the pod for ...