On August 11, 903, the first U.S. patent for instant coffee was issued – This Day in Patent History

On August 11, 903, the first U.S. patent for instant coffee was issued to Satori Kato, a Japanese inventor, who lived in Chicago.

The patent was filed in 1901, in which year his Kato Coffee Company distributed free samples of the product at the Pam-American Exposition in Buffalo.

This sparked off the coffee revolution in the US.

US735777