ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,691, issued on June 23, was assigned to Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd. (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"Flour sifting device" was invented by Ireneusz Czapp (Reda, Poland), Aleksander Majorek (Gniewowo, Poland), Andrzej Tusk (Rotmanka, Poland), Grzegorz Glodowski (Gdynia, Poland), Rafal Ciesielczyk (Wejherowo, Poland), Mark Zheng (Heshan City, China) and Bruce Li (Heshan City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flour sifting device (1), having a flour sifting tank provided with a flour sifting trough with flour sifting holes at the bottom, and a rotating brush located inside the flour sifting tank having a rotating shaft (7*) and...