ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,714, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to LUIGI LAVAZZA S.P.A. (Turin, Italy).
"Dispenser of coffee in solid form" was invented by Gabriele Molinaro (Turin, Italy) and Leonardo Sergio (Turin, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispenser of coffee in solid form comprises: -a storage volume (10). to contain coffee beans (CB), -a dosing arrangement (11), set downstream an outlet (40a) of the storage volume (10) and prearranged for releasing dosed amounts of coffee beans (CB) from the storage volume (10), -a dispensing mouth (12), set downstream an outlet (11a) of the dosing arrangement (11), -a cooling arrangement, configured for cool...