ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,238, issued on June 3, was assigned to New Innovations Inc. (Tokyo).

"Beverage providing device" was invented by Keito Nakao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage providing device includes: a beverage supply unit; a storage section having an area for holding two or more containers each containing a beverage supplied from the beverage supply unit; a provision section including an outlet; a transfer section which transfers, to at least the storage section, each container containing the beverage supplied from the beverage supply unit; an outer wall having a front face provided with at least the outlet and having a side face of...