US Patent Issued to BRITA on March 18 for "Water dispenser" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,389, issued on March 18, was assigned to BRITA SE (Taunusstein, Germany).

"Water dispenser" was invented by Gernot Wiese (Mainz, Germany), Jurgen Herrmann (Weinstadt, Germany) and Markus Huster (Gross-Gerau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a water dispenser, the water dispenser having a water supply, a carbon dioxide supply, an outlet for pouring water into a container placed below the outlet, a controller and a user interface, the method including the following steps, which are executed in response to an activation of the water dispenser via the user interface: determining a nominal value of a water vo...