US Patent Issued to LUIGI LAVAZZA on Sept. 1 for "System and method for the preparation of coffee tablets and the like" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,358, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to LUIGI LAVAZZA S.P.A. (Turin, Italy).

"System and method for the preparation of coffee tablets and the like" was invented by Carlo Carbonini (Turin, Italy), Francesca Dangelico (Turin, Italy) and Massimo Di Marco (Turin, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for producing tablets for extraction of a liquid food product, a plurality of dosed amounts of a moistened powder ingredient are loaded into respective forming cavities of a multi-cavity forming device, the multi-cavity forming device is then introduced into a multimode cavity of a microwave oven, and thereafter the multi-cavity f...