ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,692, issued on March 17, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Suggesting coffee bean grind size for beverage machines" was invented by Korkut Bekiroglu (Newtonville, Mass.), Manan Patel (Boston), Steven P. Carter (London), Scott John Shaw (Waltham, Mass.), Eli Piscitelli (Walpole, Mass.), Ethan T. Brown (Cambridge, Mass.), James Parry (London), Joshua Cole Dettmar (Essex, Great Britain) and Karol Rabalski (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various illustrative systems, devices, and methods for beverage machines (e.g., drip coffee machines, espresso machines, etc.) are provided. In an exemplary implementati...