ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,145, issued on April 14, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).
"Method of roasting" was invented by Flavien Florent Dubief (Champagne, Switzerland) and Nicolas Bigler (Morrens, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a method of roasting coffee beans with a roasting apparatus (X), said roasting apparatus comprising a control system (80) configured to control the heating device (2) and to reproduce roasting recipes, said control implementing a feedback loop regulation based on the temperature Treg measured by the at least one temperature probe (5), wherein, before roasting co...