US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on Jan. 27 for "Automatic system for dispensing roasted coffee beans" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,983, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Automatic system for dispensing roasted coffee beans" was invented by Youcef Ait Bouziad (Echandens, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system (100) for dispensing a certain quantity of coffee beans into a beverage preparation machine to prepare a coffee beverage, the system comprising a tight variable volume container (20) with a volume receptacle (22) where the coffee beans are stored, the volume receptacle (22) being configured to modify its internal volume in order to adapt it to the quantity of coffe...