ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,620, issued on March 11, was assigned to Kerflummox Holdings LLC (Hanover, N.H.).

"Method for C. bot prevention in low acid beverages" was invented by Janice Benson (Etna, N.H.) and Oussama Sabky (Dedham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low acid beverage product such as e.g. coffee, cold brew coffee or nitro cold brew coffee product that is shelf stable for 180 days at refrigerated conditions including a sealed container having a liquid portion and a headspace. The liquid portion has the beverage with oxygen dissolved therein. A method of manufacturing the beverage includes dissolving oxygen and into a cold beverage and packa...