ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,264, issued on March 25, was assigned to ISHIDA EUROPE Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method for dispensing doses of flavouring" was invented by Lee Vine (Poole, Great Britain) and Andrew Geoffrey Potter (Shropshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flavouring dispenser for dispensing doses of flavouring is disclosed. The flavouring dispenser comprises a flavouring chamber for containing flavouring; a dosing member having a dosing volume for receiving flavouring from the flavouring chamber, the dosing member defining an opening to the dosing volume through which flavouring is received from the flavour...