ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,476, issued on July 22.
"Automated, oxygen-purged food service and integrated food containers" was invented by Nader George Hanna (Huntington Beach, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An advanced food storing, dispensing, and packaging system, including the use of computing and communications technology to both monitor and improve quality of food. The storing and dispensing system can also integrate with better packaging. Such a system and technology is used to create a better way to acquire and control food quality, whether delivered or not, raw or cooked, that is fresher when monitored, whether it waits to be delivered for immed...