ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,962, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GIOCOGUADO LTD. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Coffee-making apparatus and method" was invented by William Playford (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coffee-making apparatus has a brew-water chamber for containing heated brew water, a coffee chamber, a water delivery system for delivering heated brew water from the brew-water chamber to the coffee chamber, and a cooling apparatus for cooling the heated brew water before it reaches the coffee chamber. The water delivery system comprises a conduit and a valve, openable when the pressure at a valve inlet reaches a valve open...