ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,887, issued on July 29, was assigned to BRITA SE (Taunusstein, Germany).
"Method for conveying a liquid into a container" was invented by Thomas Duchardt (Offenbach, Germany) and Oliver Machui (Bad Homburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for conveying a liquid into a container of a conveying device. The conveying device comprising a liquid reservoir, a pump and a tap. The liquid is supplied by the pump from the liquid reservoir via a tap inlet to the tap. The liquid emerges from a tap outlet of the tap and flows into the container arranged below the tap outlet. An outlet volume flow rate of the liquid flowing from th...