ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,664, issued on July 7, was assigned to Tosei Kogyo Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Wrap off-cuts cutting and returning apparatus in gyoza forming machine" was invented by Toyono Yuasa (Tokyo), Yoshie Yuasa (Tokyo) and Masahito Murakami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a gyoza forming machine compressing a half kneaded noodle skin raw material to form into a belt-like shape, die cutting the obtained belt-like material into a predetermined shape to form a gyoza skin, and wrapping the gyoza filling with the gyoza skin to obtain a gyoza, a wrap off-cuts cutting and returning apparatus is provided with a cutting unit which sequentially cuts the...