US Patent Issued to Duke Manufacturing on Oct. 20 for "Multiuse food storage pan handling system" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,726, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Duke Manufacturing Co. (St. Louis).

"Multiuse food storage pan handling system" was invented by Gregory G. Stettes (Pacific, Mo.) and Tim Howard (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food holding apparatus and associated components and methods. The food holding apparatus includes a food holding unit and at least one food pan transporter. A food pan is stowable in a food pan receiving location of the food holding apparatus. The food pan is moveable by the pan transporter into and out of the food pan receiving location."

The patent was filed on April 20, 2022, under Application No. 17/725,...