ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,836, issued on June 23, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).
"Method to roast coffee beans" was invented by Flavien Florent Dubief (Champagne, Switzerland) and Joel Morend (Chatonnaye, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a method to roast coffee beans in a room (100), said method comprising the steps of wherein, when at least one roasting operation is implemented, -obtaining desired roasting data input of said at least one roasting operation, said desired data input, -getting access to information relative to the room and to the coffee beans roasting apparatus, and -befo...