ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,457, issued on Sept. 23.
"Coffee machines" was invented by Michael Myers (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are examples of a system which include a boiling system and a dispensing system. The boiling system includes a primary boiler to heat hot water, a holding boiler to maintain the hot water, a brew group to receive the hot water from the holding boiler, and a heated transfer hose to receive a beverage component from the brew group and apply heat to the beverage component. The brew group includes a motor, a tamp to form a puck, a heated brew chamber to extract a beverage component, a load cell to measure a w...