ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,692, issued on July 29, was assigned to Congruens Group LLC (San Carlos, Calif.).

"On-demand robotic food assembly equipment, and related systems and methods" was invented by Joshua Gouled Goldberg (San Carlos, Calif.), Vaibhav Goel (San Carlos, Calif.), Alexander John Garden (San Carlos, Calif.) and Robert Eugene Switek (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piece of equipment for on-demand food preparation, for instance on an assembly line, that can use an end-of-arm tool to retrieve and deposit food items on a horizontal surface, such as the surface of a conveyor. The end-of-arm tool may include a peel, in which the ...