US Patent Issued to BOTRISTA on March 11 for "Automated beverage preparation apparatus capable of excluding unqualified materials when making beverages" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,960, issued on March 11, was assigned to BOTRISTA INC. (Dover, Del.).

"Automated beverage preparation apparatus capable of excluding unqualified materials when making beverages" 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 material dispensing device includes: a target nozzle for dispensing a target material to a target container; a pump arranged to operably extract the target material from the material container and to operably push the target material to flow toward the target nozzle; a material drainage port; a flow direction switch device,...