US Patent Issued to General Mills on Oct. 20 for "Pre-scored frozen dough sub and steak rolls" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,564, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to General Mills Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Pre-scored frozen dough sub and steak rolls" was invented by Christopher Crosby (Shakopee, Minn.), Ryan D. Gifford (Golden Valley, Minn.), Todd A. Rasmussen (Scandia, Minn.), Jeffrey David Reinke (Waconia, Minn.), Geoffrey P. Suski (Saint Paul Park, Minn.) and Kara M. Hobart (New Hope, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of dough pieces are produced using a rotary dough cutter comprises an annular cutter body configured to be rotatably driven, a plurality of arcuate sidewalls extending circumferentially about the cutter body, a plurality of radial...