US Patent Issued to Starbucks on Jan. 27 for "Systems, methods, and devices for extraction material distribution" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,236, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Starbucks Corp. (Seattle).

"Systems, methods, and devices for extraction material distribution" was invented by Kieran A. Murphy (Seattle), Jefferey Jean Chapman (Seattle), Michael Lane (Seattle), Dariusz P. Piech (Seattle) and John L. Brockman (Edmonds, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally relates to a system for distributing extraction material to a plurality of extraction chambers. The system may include a hopper configured to hold a beverage ingredient, and a grinder configured to grind the beverage ingredient to generate the extraction material. In some embodiments...