ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,657, issued on April 8, was assigned to PepsiCo Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"Beverage can with ingredient chamber" was invented by Graham Robert Downing (Chicago), Bruno Telesca (Sandy Hook, Conn.), Andrew Robert Taylor (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Leanne Yip Heung Win (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage can with an ingredient chamber for storing functional ingredients separately from a base beverage until the beverage can is opened by a consumer. The ingredient chamber may be disposed on a can end of the beverage can. The ingredient chamber may be broken open to release functional ingredients automatical...