US Patent Issued to General Mills on June 16 for "Hard taco shell and method and apparatus for producing the hard taco shell" (British, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,197, issued on June 16, was assigned to General Mills Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Hard taco shell and method and apparatus for producing the hard taco shell" was invented by Shivakumar Elayedath (Eden Prairie, Minn.), John J Fenske (Shoreview, Minn.), Sean Igo (Minnetonka, Minn.), Andrew David King (St Neots, Great Britain), David Morrison Russell (Sheffield, Great Britain), Samuel Whitmore (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Mark Anthony Zentile (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A taco shell is produced using a rotary cutter including a shaft, an outer blade extending radially outward from the shaft and a first inner blade ext...