ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,996, issued on July 15.
"Manual meat grinder" was invented by Xu'e Chen (Shantou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manual meat grinder is provided. The manual meat grinder includes a bottom cover and an upper cover. The bottom cover includes lower grinding teeth disposed at intervals, and the upper cover includes upper grinding teeth disposed at intervals. The upper cover covers the lower cover and is rotatably connected to the lower cover, so as to grind meat through cooperation of the upper grinding teeth and the lower grinding teeth. At least one of the bottom cover and the upper cover includes blocking components disposed a...