ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,716, issued on March 11, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).
"Beverage extraction unit with movable outflow obstructor" was invented by Nicolas Obliger (Franey, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a beverage extraction unit (1) for extracting a beverage from an exchangeable single-serve portioned capsule (2) containing beverage ingredients and being configured with a flow restricting member for extracting capsules at different beverage pressure and flow conditions. The invention also relates to the beverage machine comprising the extraction unit."
The patent was filed on...