US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on Aug. 4 for "Beverage preparation machine with capsule recognition" (French, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,995, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Beverage preparation machine with capsule recognition" was invented by Bertrand Guyon (Pontarlier, France) and Michael Fournier (Veysonnaz, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine (1) for preparing and dispensing a beverage (2) has: a capsule extraction unit (10) having a first part (11) and a second part (12) that are relatively movable between a distant position for inserting a capsule (3) and a close position for extracting such capsule (3); a control unit (40) for controlling the extraction unit (10) to extract such capsule ...