ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,449, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DAITO GIKEN INC. (Tokyo).

"Coffee bean grinding machine" was invented by Masato Saito (Tokyo) and Taisuke Torizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coffee bean grinding machine with which a taste of coffee can be enjoyed. A coffee bean grinding machine including: a grinder configured to grind coffee beans; and a control device configured to control the grinder, in which the grinder has a plurality of types of particle sizes that can be set for producing ground coffee beans, and the control device controls the production of the ground coffee beans while changing the set particle size of the g...