ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,977, issued on May 19, was assigned to Keurig Green Mountain Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).
"Beverage machine user interface" was invented by Jeffrey Sol Hadden (Arlington, Mass.), Lisa Fortini Watts (Medford, Mass.), Mustafa Kamal Ahmed (Arlington, Mass.), Haniel Olivera (Fitchburg, Mass.) and Ilya Tatar (Reading, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage forming system having a controller arranged to provide a user interface with a user-adjustable indication of at least one brew parameter and to receive a command from a user to adjust the at least one brew parameter. The user-adjustable indication may include a slider track extendi...