US Patent Issued to Lab2Fab on Nov. 3 for "Component systems for automated cooking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,345, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Lab2Fab LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Component systems for automated cooking" was invented by Samuel Lewis Tanaka (San Leandro, Calif.), Cory David Lent (Campbell, Calif.), John Paul Norman (San Jose, Calif.) and Shawn Lange (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food processing apparatus comprises a basket retainer configured to support a basket of consumable items above a food processing device. The food processing apparatus may also include a reciprocating agitator configured to impart a repetitive contact to the basket, thereby inducing motion of the consumable items within the bas...