US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts on Aug. 25 for "Beverage preparation machine and cooling module" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,751, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. (Utrecht, Netherlands).

"Beverage preparation machine and cooling module" was invented by Hendrik Johan Dees (Utrecht, Netherlands), Willem Plantinga (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Jacobus Dessing (Hoofddorp, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage preparation machine has a cooling module (70) for cooling a liquid beverage ingredient. The module comprises a heat exchanger (72) having a liquid conduit (74) and a thermal energy accumulator (80) comprising a phase change material (PCM) (82) thermally coupled to the heat exchanger. A heat pump (78) is therma...