ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,623, issued on May 26, was assigned to Sodastream Industries Ltd. (Kfar Saba, Israel).
"Carbonation machine with fixed carbonation pulse duration" was invented by Igor Kurovets (Shoham, Israel), Oren Shalev (Ashdod, Israel), Guy Megidish (Kiryat Gat, Israel), Gal Shner (Kohav Michael, Israel) and Dvir Brand (Hod-Hasharon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbonation machine includes a carbonation head comprising: a carbonation lever configured to be operated by a user to assume a carbonation position to carbonate a liquid in a bottle connected to the carbonation head; a plunger for operating a valve of a gas canister between a ...