US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on March 31 for "Beverage machine with an off-set actuator" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,780, issued on March 31, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Beverage machine with an off-set actuator" 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 (3) 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 a flavouring ingredient (2) is received in the chamber (21) and a pr...