US Patent Issued to Sodick on July 14 for "Noodle boiling apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,977, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sodick Co. Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Noodle boiling apparatus" was invented by Hisahiko Jinno (Kanagawa, Japan), Masato Taniguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazutake Muramoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A noodle boiling apparatus includes a noodle boiling unit, and a hot water supply mechanism supplying water, which is heated, to the noodle boiling unit. The noodle boiling unit includes a boiling tank storing the water and boiling noodles, a hot water pipe supplying the water, which is heated, to the boiling tank, and a discharge pipe discharging the water from the boiling tank to...