ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,860, issued on July 14, was assigned to KELLANOVA (Battle Creek, Mich.).

"Marbled foodstuff manufacturing system" was invented by Xingjun James Chen (Richland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a marbled foodstuff (FM) product includes the steps of extruding a first foodstuff (F1) into a foodstuff conduit (26, 36) and injecting a second foodstuff (F2) into the first foodstuff (F1) within the foodstuff conduit (26, 36). The first foodstuff (F1) includes water, red dye #3, natural smoke flavor, bacon flavor, soy isolate, wheat gluten, native tapioca starch, wheat protein texturizer, and megacell-80 texturizer, i...