US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on May 6 for "Code and container of system for preparing a beverage or foodstuff" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,200, issued on May 6, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"Code and container of system for preparing a beverage or foodstuff" was invented by Andre Noth (Pully, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container for a foodstuff or beverage preparation machine, the container for containing beverage or foodstuff material and comprising a code encoding preparation information, the code comprising a reference portion and a data portion: the reference portion comprising an arrangement of at least two reference units defining a reference point and a reference line r extending from said point; the dat...