ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,877, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to BREVILLE PTY Ltd. (Alexandria, Australia).

"Food processing device" was invented by Lochana Subasekara Widanagamage Don (Alexandria, Australia), Con Psarologos (Alexandria, Australia), Rey Anthony Carullo (Alexandria, Australia) and Ze Kang Lai (Alexandria, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food processing device including: a base having a drive motor; a vessel removably mounted on the base and including a bottom wall, a side wall extending upwardly from the bottom wall to a cover member, the cover member including a feed tube extending upwardly therefrom; a pusher member adapted to ...