ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,435, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Duke Manufacturing Co. (St. Louis).
"Networked food preparation apparatus" was invented by Benjamin Kingbay Wann (St. Louis) and Canyon DeVille (Lake St. Louis, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A kitchen network system comprising a plurality of food preparation apparatuses. Each of the food preparation apparatuses has a physical data bus, a single board computer, and an input/output (I/O) circuit communicatively coupled to the processor via the physical data bus. The single board computer comprises a processor that generates a control signal for controlling an operation of the food preparat...