ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,857, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sodastream Industries Ltd. (Kfar saba, Israel).
"Carbonation machine and method for carbonating various liquids" was invented by Avi Cohen (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Oren David Shalev (Ashdod, Israel), Dalit Bahar (Raanana, Israel), Dvir Brand (Hod Hashron, Israel), Gal Shner (Kohav Michael, Israel) and Igor Kurovets (Shoham, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbonation machine includes a carbonation head to sealingly couple to a bottle filled with liquid to be carbonated; a piping to introduce and compress carbon dioxide into a space within the bottle above a top surface of the liquid to a pre...