ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,358, issued on July 22, was assigned to BREVILLE PTY LTD (Alexandria, Australia).
"Coffee grinder" was invented by Robert Grassia (Summer Hill, Australia) and Daniel Robert Corkin (Panania, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to grind and tamp including a receptacle for receiving coffee grinds from a grinder that is drivable by a first electric motor, an auger for tamping coffee grinds in the receptacle, and a processor adapted to receive a feedback signal indicating whether the coffee grinds in the receptacle have reached a level threshold value. The auger is drivable by a second electric motor. The processor is furthe...