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US 12,696,996 B2
Apparatus and method for preparation of a beverage
US 12,696,996 B2 is a granted patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), dated 2026-08-04. Applicant: Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V. Its PDF downloads from this page without an account, up to 5 a day.
- Applicant
- Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.
- Inventors
- Sebastian Mirbeth; Paul Saxton
- Publication date
- 2026-08-04
- Filing date
- 2023-12-01
- Document type
- B2 Granted patent
- Also written as
- US 12,696,996 B2 · US12696996 · 12696996
Abstract
A beverage preparation machine (100) comprising: a brew head (101) for receiving in use a cartridge (200), the cartridge (200) being of a type that comprises one or more beverage ingredients and has a code (201) associated with the cartridge (200) for determining a standard set of brewing parameters; a code reader (104); an activation element (102); and a controller (103) configured to control operation of the beverage preparation machine to prepare a beverage from the one or more beverage ingredients of the cartridge (200) in response to actuation of the activation element (102); the controll…
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