ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,860, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SHANGHAI AICAN ROBOT (GROUP) Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Feeding device for intelligent cooking machine" was invented by Qing He (Shanghai), Guang He (Shanghai), Gang Liu (Shanghai) and Zhenquan Lin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A feeding device for an intelligent cooking machine, including a base frame, at least one ingredient box, at least one door panel, at least one door opening mechanism, at least one door opening motor, at least one door closing mechanism, and at least one door closing motor. The at least one ingredient box matches with the at least one door panel in number; at lea...