ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,035, issued on June 3, was assigned to DUKE MANUFACTURING Co. (St. Louis).
"Networked food preparation apparatus" was invented by Benjamin Kingbay Wann (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kitchen network system comprising a plurality of food preparation apparatuses, each comprising a single board computer communicatively coupled to a wireless mesh network. The single board computer comprises a processor, a built-in antenna, and one or more memory devices communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory devices store a database containing provisioning and configuration data for at least two of the nodes of the mesh network....