US Patent Issued to B/E AEROSPACE on March 11 for "Scale detection systems and methods for aircraft beverage makers" (Missouri, Kansas, Hawaii Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,722, issued on March 11, was assigned to B/E AEROSPACE INC. (Winston Salem, N.C.).

"Scale detection systems and methods for aircraft beverage makers" was invented by Byron Devlin (Kansas City, Mo.), Derek J. Taylor (Olathe, Kan.) and Jeb Stewart (Honolulu).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage maker may comprise a heating system, a temperature sensor operably coupled the heating system, and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive a series of measured temperature signals from the temperature sensor, calculate a change in temperature using the series of measured temperature signals, and calculate an efficiency of ...