ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,629, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LANXESS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH (Cologne, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for the preservation of beverages with pump venting" was invented by Jonas Burgholz (Cologne, Germany), Erasmus Vogl (Cologne, Germany), Gerhard Sartorius (Cologne, Germany) and Axel Kubatz (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for preserving beverages with a measuring device, is provided which is suitable and intended to determine a flow rate of a liquid flowing through a beverage line, and with a pump device which conveys a preservative, in particular dialkyl dicarbonate, into the beverage line, into the beve...