US Patent Issued to AMF BAKERY SYSTEMS on Nov. 3 for "Apparatus and method with integrated process checkweigher for commercial bread product manufacture" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,145, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AMF BAKERY SYSTEMS INC. (Richmond, Va.).

"Apparatus and method with integrated process checkweigher for commercial bread product manufacture" was invented by Bruce Campbell (Richmond, Va.), William J. Schreier Jr. (Richmond, Va.) and Tom Pearce (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are embodiments of a dough proofer for a commercial bakery that can receive dough pieces from a dough divider onto trays. Each tray has cups that hold dough pieces. The trays are moved through the proofer by a conveyor system. The proofer has a checkweigher. The checkweigher also uses the same conveyo...