ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,580, issued on April 14, was assigned to Chef Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).

"Robotic end effector system for multiple deposits" was invented by John Unkovic (San Francisco), Somudro Gupta (San Francisco), Rajat Bhageria (San Francisco), Luis Rayas (San Francisco), Kody Brown (San Francisco), Xinyi Daniel Tang (San Francisco), Weston Wahl (San Francisco) and Clement Creusot (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The multi-deposit end effector system 100 can include: a set of actuators 110; an optional set of utensil mating connectors 120; and a plurality of utensils 200. Each utensil can include: a set of scoops 210; a set of...