US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts on July 14 for "Outlet nozzle arrangement for a drink dispensing apparatus" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,985, issued on July 14, was assigned to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. (Utrecht, Netherlands).

"Outlet nozzle arrangement for a drink 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 drink dispensing apparatus includes a nozzle arrangement comprising a plurality of nozzles, wherein at least one of the plurality of nozzles is an outlet nozzle for dispensing a drinkable fluid and wherein at least one ...