US Patent Issued to General Mills on Jan. 20 for "Apparatus and method for producing scored dough pieces" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,330, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to General Mills Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Apparatus and method for producing scored dough pieces" was invented by Steven J. Cox (Long Lake, Minn.), David J. Domingues (Plymouth, Minn.), Roger G. Fuentes (St. Louis Park, Minn.), Paul Henderson (Lakeville, Minn.), Kara M. Hobart (New Hope, Minn.), Olivia Murch (Minneapolis) and Vani Vemulapalli (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bread product is produced by forming a dough piece, creating at least one score in the dough piece, applying an adhesive to the dough piece with the adhesive extending across the score, freezing the dough piece to...