US Patent Issued to Luigi Lavazza on March 25 for "Apparatus for preparing a beverage" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,205, issued on March 25, was assigned to Luigi Lavazza S.p.A. (Turin, Italy).

"Apparatus for preparing a beverage" was invented by Peter Austin (Basingstoke, Great Britain), Paul Fletcher (Surrey, Great Britain), David Knowles (St Albans, Great Britain) and Sam Hyde (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage preparation capsule containing a beverage preparation ingredient, having a body with side walls formed from one or more substantially air- and liquid-impermeable sheet materials defining a chamber containing a beverage preparation ingredient and further defining an outlet channel having an upstream end...