GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Melitta Bentz, a housewife from Dresden, registered her new coffee filter with the patent office on 20 June 1908.

Detailed explanation-2: -Amalie Auguste Melitta Bentz (31 January 1873 – 29 June 1950), born Amalie Auguste Melitta Liebscher, was a German entrepreneur who invented the paper coffee filter brewing system in 1908.

Detailed explanation-3: -Trial and error prevailed in a German woman’s kitchen. And when she got the system she wanted, she put her name on it.

Detailed explanation-4: -Melitta North America. Headquartered in Clearwater, Florida, Melitta North America is part of the privately held Melitta Group of Minden, Germany.