ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,405, issued on July 21, was assigned to Middleby Coffee Solutions Group LLC (Seattle).

"Heated beverage system implementing matrixed valves for simultaneous control of temperature and either pressure or flow rate" was invented by Eric Schaefer (Ruston, Wash.) and Frederick Cory Sayre (McKinleyville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling disbursement of a fluid to a brew material, the method includes directing a fluid toward a brew material, wherein the fluid is generated from a first fluid at a first temperature combined with a second fluid at a second temperature. Simultaneously controlling temperature and a ...