ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,791, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).
"Method for roasting coffee beans" was invented by Flavien Florent Dubief (Champagne, Switzerland) and Nicolas Bigler (Morrens, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a method to determine the roasting recipe for roasting a customised blend of coffee beans introduced in a chamber of a roasting apparatus, said recipe providing the temperature to be applied at discrete successive times, said method comprising the steps of: obtaining for each type of coffee beans comprised in said blend at least: the type of said t...