US Patent Issued to Societe des Produits Nestle on Nov. 4 for "System for roasting coffee beans" (Belgian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,053, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Societe des Produits Nestle S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).

"System for roasting coffee beans" was invented by Joel Morend (Chatonnaye, Switzerland), Stefano Ceccaroli (Chavornay, Switzerland), Flavien Florent Dubief (Champagne, Switzerland), Thomas Degreef (Grimbergen, Belgium), Ben Van Dyck (Brecht, Belgium), Rien Denise M. Lemmens (Boechout, Belgium), Michiel Alexander Celis (Ghent, Belgium) and Christophe Van Bavinchove (Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a system for roasting coffee beans comprising: -a roasting apparatus (1), said apparatus producin...