ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,251, issued on July 29, was assigned to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. (Ultrecht, Netherlands).
"Capsule, a system for preparing a potable beverage from such a capsule and use of such a capsule in a beverage preparation device" was invented by Hielke Dijkstra (Utrecht, Netherlands), Arend Hendrik Groothornte (Utrecht, Netherlands), Erik Pieter van Gaasbeek (Utrecht, Netherlands), Marc Henrikus Joseph Ottenschot (Utrecht, Netherlands), Ralf Kamerbeek (Utrecht, Netherlands), Armin Sjoerd Eijsackers (Utrecht, Netherlands), John Henri Flamand (Utrecht, Netherlands), Andrew Michael Halliday (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Nicholas Andrew Hansen (Utrecht, Netherlands).
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