US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts on Sept. 2 for "System, apparatus, method, capsule and kit of capsules for preparing a beverage" (Dutch, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,749, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. (Utrecht, Netherlands).

"System, apparatus, method, capsule and kit of capsules for preparing a beverage" was invented by Judith Margreet Hanneke Ogink (Putten, Netherlands), Marjan Cornelissen (Drachten, Netherlands), Peter Rijskamp (Gaggio Montano, Italy) and Klaas Kooijker (Drachten, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for preparing a quantity of beverage, including first and second capsules, and an apparatus including a first and a second brew chamber part, wherein at least a portion of the second brew chamber part is movable into a first and a...