ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,965, issued on April 22, was assigned to KOUBEI (SHANGHAI) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Instant beverage production equipment" was invented by Zhenbin Zheng (Shanghai), Kang Gao (Shanghai) and Linhong Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to instant beverage production equipment, including: a preparing device configured to prepare drinking ingredients of instant beverages in first cup bodies, and add the prepared drinking ingredients into first cup bodies; a material adding device configured to add chewing ingredients of the instant beverages into second cup bodies, wherein one of...