US Patent Issued to FBD on March 31 for "Sealed, self-cleaning, food dispensing system with variable overrun control" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,684, issued on March 31, was assigned to FBD Partnership LP (San Antonio).

"Sealed, self-cleaning, food dispensing system with variable overrun control" was invented by Marshall G Carter (San Antonio), Craig Cloud (New Braunfels, Texas), R Craig Cobabe (Boerne, Texas) and Cameron C Crandall (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A refrigerated food processing and dispensing apparatus including a freezing barrel, the freezing barrel having an inlet port; a refrigerated ingredient storage compartment; a pump having an inlet and an outlet; a pressure block positioned within the refrigerated ingredient storage compartment that incl...