ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,737, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Chef Robotics Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and/or method for refilling assembly systems" was invented by Kody Brown (San Francisco), Rajat Bhageria (San Francisco), Weston Wahl (San Francisco), Xinyi Daniel Tang (San Francisco), Jamie Delton (San Francisco) and Clement Creusot (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system can include: a base structure, a set of support elements, and/or any other suitable components. The system can optionally include a foodstuff bin and a force sensor. However, the system can additionally or alternatively include any other suitable set of components. T...