US Patent Issued to Plant Tap on May 13 for "System and method for dispensing a food and beverage product" (Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,023, issued on May 13, was assigned to Plant Tap LLC (North Salem, N.Y.).

"System and method for dispensing a food and beverage product" was invented by Joseph Camillo Savino (North Salem, N.Y.), Lennie Friedman (Raleigh, N.C.), Schlomo A. Tolwin (Southfield, Mich.), William D Suh (Cary, N.C.), James Shepard (Marblehead, Mass.), Zachary Carlins (Boston), Aaron Panone (Medford, Mass.) and Daniel T. Lewis (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and system for dispensing a food and beverage product where a flowable product is extracted from a flexible pouch, and where a nozzle region exists through which the flowable ...