A47J 31/54
Water boiling vessels in beverage making machines
Official title: Water boiling vessels {in beverage making machines}
A47J31/54 (Water boiling vessels in beverage making machines) appears on 832 US grants and 855 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A47J- Granted patents
- 832
- Published applications
- 855
- Assignees
- 429
- Inventors
- 1,562
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 29 | 27 |
| 2024 | 34 | 29 |
| 2025 | 21 | 45 |
| 2026 | 19 | 31 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Coffee machine for hot and iced coffee29 Sep 2026US 12,745,874 B2The Steelstone Group LLC
- Liquid sensing arrangement for beverage machine8 Sep 2026US 12,727,710 B2Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.
- Beverage preparation machine and cooling module25 Aug 2026US 12,715,751 B2Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B. V.
- Modular brew systems11 Aug 2026US 12,702,248 B2Starbucks Corporation
- Hot and cold water dispenser and method4 Aug 2026US 12,696,997 B2S.B.I.D Solutions, Enterprise and Investments Ltd.
- Brewing and cooling a beverage17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272211 A1ColdSnap, Corp.
- Head assembly, apparatus and method for preparing hot beverages3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256315 A1
- Brewing machine with sugar dissolving function27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248318 A1Tsamm Kuen (Zhangzhou) Enterprise Co., Ltd.
- Coffee making system27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248322 A1Maxi (Beijing) International Brand Management Co., Ltd.
- Ceramic body coffee maker20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240355 A1Clovermark Studios LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automated beverage brewing system305US 6,142,063 AKeurig, Incorporated · 2000
- Apparatus for consecutively dispensing an equal volume of liquid144US 6,082,247 AKeurig, Incorporated · 2000
- Dispenser which incrementally heats fluids with substantial non-volatile constituent parts140US 6,311,868 B1New Sensations, L.L.C. · 2001
- System for dispensing metered volumes of heated water to the brew chamber of a single serve beverage brewer135US 7,398,726 B2Keurig, Incorporated · 2008
- Coffee machine117US 5,992,298 ACreaholic S.A. · 1999