US Patent Issued to DUKE MANUFACTURING on March 31 for "Food preparation apparatus and methods" (Missouri, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,708, issued on March 31, was assigned to DUKE MANUFACTURING Co. (St. Louis).

"Food preparation apparatus and methods" was invented by James W. Bigott (Fenton, Mo.), Daryl R. Monroe (Granite City, Ill.), Scott E. Willis (Sedalia, Mo.), Phillip Tiberio (St. Charles, Mo.), Michael W. McGaha (Sedalia, Mo.), Robert J. Reese (Edwardsville, Ill.), Jeffrey A. Stafford (Godfrey, Ill.), Gregory Glen Stettes (Pacific, Mo.), Thomas E. Kieffer (St. Louis) and Kim Charles Fietsam (New Athens, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dough preparation apparatus and associated methods. The dough preparation apparatus can store and be configured to execu...