US Patent Issued to Conopco on Feb. 18 for "Apparatus and method for manufacturing baked waffle cone sheets" (British, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,909, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Conopco Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.).

"Apparatus and method for manufacturing baked waffle cone sheets" was invented by Georgios Tetradis-Mairis (Bedford, Great Britain), Francesco Cusani (Rome) and Yainy Patricia Romero Cuevas (Northampton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for automatically preparing baked waffle cone sheets, for use in preparing a waffle cone to be filled with a frozen confectionery product, from waffle cone batter, the apparatus comprising a baking station, the baking station comprising a plurality of baking plate locations onto which the waffle con...