ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,663, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SUPERKOP BV (Herpt, Netherlands).
"Hand-operated coffee press" was invented by Sabine Palinckx (Herpt, Netherlands) and Geert Kaal (Herpt, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current invention relates to a hand-operated coffee press comprising: (a) a pressing assembly comprising a post, a pushing rod and a lever, wherein (i) said lever is rotably coupled to an axial end of said post, and wherein said lever and said post are configured to rotate about an eccentrical axis, and (ii) said lever is rotably coupled to an axial end of said pushing rod, and wherein said lever and said push...