ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,340, issued on May 5, was assigned to The Steelstone Group LLC (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
"Blender" was invented by Binyumen Itzkowitz (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Meilech Friedman (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Kalman Wertzberger (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Robyn De Luca (Queens, N.Y.), Wenhui Huang (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Joseph Deutsch (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, such as a blender, has a food container including an inner wall, a food processing tool configured to be rotated in the food container, and a scraper disposed in the food container. The scraper is movable within the food container and is configured to wipe down the inner wall towards th...