ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,117, issued on June 24, was assigned to PepsiCo Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"Beverage dispenser water supply connector" was invented by Giancarlo Fantappie (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Steven Jersey (Laguna Niguel, Calif.), Thomas Parker (London), Jafarr Adam (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Andrew Taylor (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure include a connector that interfaces a beverage dispenser with an external water supply. The connector includes a backflow preventer that only allows water to flow from the external water supply to the beverage dispenser. Some aspects of the connect...