ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,322, issued on April 8, was assigned to Fellow Industries Inc. (San Francisco).
"Boosted heating espresso machine" was invented by Nicholas Terzulli (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An espresso machine can include a pump, preheating component, low volume boiler, and group head. The pump can provide pressurized water to the preheating component, which can preheat the pressurized water to a first temperature and deliver the preheated water. The low volume boiler can have a heating arrangement, water inlet, internal volume, and water outlet, and can receive the preheated water, heat the preheated water to a second temperatu...