US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on Feb. 17 for "Beverage preparation machine with capsule recognition" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,051, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Beverage preparation machine with capsule recognition" was invented by Bertrand Guyon (Pontarlier, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Machine (1) for preparing and dispensing a beverage (2), such as tea, coffee, hot chocolate, cold chocolate, milk, soup or baby food, wherein the machine comprises a capsule recognition module (8) for recognizing a type of a capsule (3) inserted in the machine (1), the capsule recognition module (8) comprising a light source (82) for lighting at least part of the surface of the capsule (3) and an optical ...