ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,490, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SODAPOP GmbH (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany).
"Receiving device for receiving a bottle on a carbonation machine; carbonation machine, and method for using a carbonation machine" was invented by Gunter Empl (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany) and Stefan Stalder (Zollikofen, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbonation machine that includes a receiving device for receiving a bottle, the receiving device has a fastening device which has an iris device, which has an opening configured to have a variable size, the receiving device is transferable from a bottle-receiving state, which is configure...