US Patent Issued to Heineken Supply Chain on Sept. 2 for "Beverage container cooling system for a beverage dispensing device" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,164, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Heineken Supply Chain B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Beverage container cooling system for a beverage dispensing device" was invented by Petrus Johannes Van Geijlswijk (Voorschoten, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooling system is provided for contact cooling of a beverage container. The system comprises a cooling element, a cooling contact body thermally conductively connected to the cooling element and arranged to be in thermally conductive contact with the container, a sensor module arranged to provide a sensor signal having a sensor value indicative of a contact area between the cooling c...