ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,059, issued on April 1, was assigned to Botrista Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Automated beverage preparation apparatus capable of flexibly adjusting temperature of beverage" was invented by Wu-Chou Kuo (San Francisco), Yu-Min Lee (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu Wei Chen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid material dispensing apparatus includes: a target nozzle for dispensing water to a target container; a water drainage port; a temperature adjustment device for adjusting a temperature of received water to produce a temperature-adjusted water; a flow direction control device coupled with target nozzle, the temperature adjustment dev...