US Patent Issued to THE COCA-COLA on Feb. 3 for "Waterless ice crystal nucleator with convex ultrasonic transmitter" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,936, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to THE COCA-COLA COMPANY (Atlanta).

"Waterless ice crystal nucleator with convex ultrasonic transmitter" was invented by Miyako Sekita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A beverage nucleator system for a supercooled beverage container may include a frame for receiving a beverage container and an ultrasonic transmitter positioned therein. A convex protrusion from the ultrasonic transmitter ensures good contact and therefore good transfer of ultrasonic energy through a top surface of a closure of the beverage container, even if the beverage container is positioned within the frame at an angle to th...