US Patent Issued to Keurig Green Mountain on Sept. 8 for "Liquid sensing arrangement for beverage machine" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,710, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Keurig Green Mountain Inc. (Burlington, Mass.).

"Liquid sensing arrangement for beverage machine" was invented by Matthew Martin Kenneth Hansen (Cambridge, Mass.), Tao Xu (Shenzhen, China), Guozhuang Zeng (Shenzhen, China), Edward Anthony Mello III (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Jianming Huang (Andover, Mass.) and Daniel Stuart Burke (Beverly, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for employing a sensor to detect disconnection of a liquid supply tank and/or a low fill level of the liquid supply tank are disclosed herein. The sensor may have an optical sensor to detect liquid, e.g., to ...