US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts on July 14 for "Connector for a fluid dispensing apparatus" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,984, issued on July 14, was assigned to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. (Utrecht, Netherlands).

"Connector for a fluid dispensing apparatus" was invented by Koen Standaar (Utrecht, Netherlands), Hendrik Johan Dees (Utrecht, Netherlands), Tobias Kelderman (Nieuw-Vennep, Netherlands), Bas Jongenburger (Nieuw-Vennep, Netherlands) and Boris Franzen (Nieuw-Vennep, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector for manually connecting a dispensable fluid to a fluid dispensing includes: a cleaning fluid inlet; a dispensable fluid inlet and an outlet, wherein the cleaning fluid inlet is in fluid communication with the outlet via a cle...