US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts on July 1 for "Foaming device, apparatus and method therefor" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,956, issued on July 1, was assigned to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. (Utrecht, Netherlands).

"Foaming device, apparatus and method therefor" was invented by Koen Standaar (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Hendrik Johan Dees (Utrecht, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foaming device comprising a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet spaced apart from said fluid inlet and a fluid conduit extending from said fluid inlet to said fluid outlet, the fluid conduit defining a cavity characterised in that said fluid conduit comprises first and second plates at least one of which comprises a plurality of baffles projecting into the cavity of the flui...