ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,387, issued on March 18, was assigned to Botrista Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Fluid material dispensing apparatus for flexibly adjusting temperature of material to be dispensed" 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 include: a material output connector; a water output connector; a pump, arranged to operably extract a fluid material from a material container and to operably push the fluid material to flow toward the material output connector; a water input port, arranged to operably supply water to the water...