ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,005, issued on April 22, was assigned to STRAUSS WATER LTD. (Or Yehuda, Israel).

"Beverage dispenser with dispensing button actuatable by pivotable vessel-shelf" was invented by Omer Ben Baruch (Kiryat Ono, Israel), Eyal Krystal (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Dany Ascher (Kibbutz Mishmarot, Israel) and Orly Nahum (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure concerns a user-operable beverage dispenser having a beverage dispensing mechanism that enables dispensing of beverage by a hands-free or hands-contactless operation. A vessel-supporting shelf is pivotably articulated to the housing and is displaceable about a piv...