US Patent Issued to Heineken Supply Chain on March 18 for "Method of cooling a container comprising a beverage" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,304, issued on March 18, was assigned to Heineken Supply Chain B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Method of cooling a container comprising a beverage" was invented by Michiel Adrianus Henricus Van Der Aa (Amsterdam) and Antonius Henricus Andreas Donkers (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for cooling a beverage in a container, the container being provided in contact with a cooling contact body thermally conductively coupled to a cooling element. The method comprises operating the cooling element and obtaining an ambient temperature of the environment outside the container and the cooling contact body. Based on the ambient...