US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on May 5 for "Beverage machine with beverage collector" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,329, issued on May 5, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Beverage machine with beverage collector" 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 for preparing a beverage has a beverage processing unit formed of a first processing unit member and a second processing unit member that delimit a chamber and that are movable between a distant configuration in which a flavouring ingredient is received in the chamber and a proximate configuration in which the flavouring in...