US Patent Issued to DUKE MANUFACTURING on June 17 for "Food preparation apparatus having a virtual data bus" (Missouri, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,889, issued on June 17, was assigned to DUKE MANUFACTURING Co. (St. Louis).

"Food preparation apparatus having a virtual data bus" was invented by Benjamin Kingbay Wann (Kirkwood, Mo.), Charles Jesse James (Collinsville, Ill.) and Anthony James Regna (Imperial, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food preparation appliance and associated components and methods. The food preparation appliance is configured to support transmission of operations updates and other data to/from a local or remote computer. In some embodiments, the food preparation appliance provides a virtual data bus for transmission of the updates or data. The virtual d...