US Patent Issued to Delica on Feb. 4 for "Adapter for use in preparing a beverage by means of a capsule and a beverage preparation device" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,615, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Delica AG (Birsfelden, Switzerland).

"Adapter for use in preparing a beverage by means of a capsule and a beverage preparation device" was invented by Roland Affolter (Moriken, Switzerland), Tim Thilla (Weil am Rhein, Germany) and Markus Bronnimann (Hermrigen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter (1) for preparing a beverage by a capsule (2) and a beverage preparation device (3). The adapter (1) has a disk-shaped main body (17) with a capsule side (4) and a device side (7). On the capsule side (4), a mechanism (5) for introducing a liquid into the capsule (2) and mechanism (6) fo...