ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,739, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sodastream Industries Ltd. (Kfar Saba, Israel).
"Carbonation machine and a gas canister for a carbonation machine" was invented by Guy Danieli (Jerusalem), Avi Cohen (Jerusalem), Oren Shalev (Ashdod, Israel), Mark Funt (Kfar Saba, Israel), Allan Ring (Mercaz Shapira, Israel), Amnon Shkedi (Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Israel), Dvir Brand (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Eyal Shmueli (Modi'in-Maccabim-Reut, Israel), Amit Avigdor (Kibbutz Bahan, Israel), Eran Shaashua (Adanim, Israel), Hagai Harduff (Binyamina, Israel) and Doron Krom (Zikhron Yaacov, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carbonation machine may i...