US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on Oct. 20 for "Fluid line external to outside beverage machine housing" (Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,710, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Fluid line external to outside beverage machine housing" 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 (...