ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,377, issued on May 13.
"Apparatus for use during sous vide cooking method" was invented by Ramon Alberto Recalde (Millstone Township, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mold for shaping into a patty a ground material to be cooked using a sous vide cooking process. In one embodiment, the mold is adapted to be (i) inserted into packaging for sous vide cooking with the ground material therein and (ii) maintained in the packaging throughout the sous vide cooking process. Another embodiment includes a mold for shaping and holding a shape of a patty of a ground material inserted within the mold that is to be cooked using a sous vide coo...