ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,587, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BURFORD CORP. (Maysville, Okla.).
"System and method for placing toppings on a product" was invented by Jerry Pack (Purcell, Okla.) and Scott Clemons (Blanchard, Okla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for placing toppings on a product. In one embodiment, a system comprises a mandrel configured to dispense toppings from a supply hopper, and a topping distributor disposed least partly downstream to the mandrel. The topping distributor comprising at least one opening, wherein at least some of the toppings that fail to exit through the at least one opening of the topp...