US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on April 14 for "Beverage machine with separable fluid module" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,265, issued on April 14, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Beverage machine with separable fluid module" was invented by Thibault Escalier (Montlebon, France), Alexandre Perentes (Sullens, Switzerland) and Alexandre Pugliese (Paudex, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine (1) for preparing a beverage has a beverage processing unit (10,20) formed of a first processing unit member (10) and a second processing unit member (20) that delimit a chamber (21) and that are movable between a distant configuration in which the ingredient (2) is received in the chamber (21) and a proximate con...