US Patent Issued to Lab2Fab on March 3 for "Sliced topping alignment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,978, issued on March 3, was assigned to Lab2Fab LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Sliced topping alignment" was invented by Samuel Tanaka (San Leandro, Calif.), Cory Lent (Campbell, Calif.) and John Paul Norman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods are presented herein for slicing a food topping for placing upon a food ingredient. A topping holder is configured to position a topping stock. A blade is configured to slice the topping stock via relative motion between the topping holder and the blade. A deflector is configured to force a leading edge of the sliced portion of the topping stock away from...