ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,705, issued on May 26, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).
"Method to roast coffee beans" was invented by Joel Morend (Chatonnaye, Switzerland), Flavien Florent Dubief (Champagne, Switzerland), Thomas Rudi S. Degreef (Grimbergen, Belgium), Michiel Alexander Celis (Deurne, Belgium), Rien Denise M. Lemmens (Boechout Antwerp, Belgium) and Maxime Baekelandt (Ghent, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a method to roast coffee beans in a roasting system (10), said system comprising: -a roasting apparatus (2), and -a smoke treating unit (3) configured to treat the smoke produced by...