US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts on May 27 for "Beverage preparation system, a capsule and a method for forming a beverage" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,155, issued on May 27, was assigned to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. (Utrecht, Netherlands).

"Beverage preparation system, a capsule and a method for forming a beverage" was invented by Andrew Chapman (Peterborough, Great Britain), Stuart Banister (Peterborough, Great Britain), Simon Jelley (Cambridge, Great Britain), Esak Shabudin (Banbury, Great Britain) and Andrew Halliday (Banbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage producing system is provided comprising a capsule containing beverage ingredients and a beverage preparation machine.The capsule comprises a cup-shaped body and a lid; the cup-shaped body having ...