ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,711, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SEB S.A. (Ecully, France).

"Milk frothing device with an optimized holding system" was invented by Gilles Morin (Ecully Cedex, France) and Quentin Dos Santos (Ecully Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The milk frothing device includes a mixing part comprising a mixing chamber, a hot water/vapor inlet orifice and a main flow conduit connecting the hot water/vapor inlet orifice to the mixing chamber; a closure part movable relative to the mixing part between a closed position in which the closure part closes the mixing chamber and the main flow conduit and an open position in which the ...