ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,404,162, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Lancer Corp. (San Antonio).
"Hand-held beverage dispenser" was invented by Joseph Daniel Martin (Kaiserslautern, Germany), Anthony Joseph Behe Jr. (Converse, Texas), Ricardo Abugarade Rodriguez (Schertz, Texas) and John Dsouza (Live Oak, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held beverage dispenser includes a handle body, within which multiple valve units are contained. Two sets of fluid flow paths are provided into the handle body. The sets of fluid flow paths are mutually exclusive one to the other. Each flow path of the first set is in fluid communication with each valve unit, whereas ...