US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts on Dec. 23 for "Beverage pad and apparatus for making beverage pads" (Dutch, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,298, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. (Utrecht, Netherlands).

"Beverage pad and apparatus for making beverage pads" was invented by Jules Risser (Utrecht, Netherlands), Hermanus Cornelius Jozef Elbertse (Vreeswijk, Netherlands), Daniel Thomas Ahearn (Otley, Great Britain) and Duncan James Wales (Holbeach, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for making a beverage pad having an amount of extractable or soluble beverage preparation product as a compacted puck enclosed between two sheets of filtering material comprises dosing means arranged for supply of a dose of extractable or solu...