US Patent Issued to F'real! Foods on June 17 for "Modular blender with improved water heating and light beam detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,320, issued on June 17, was assigned to F'real! Foods LLC (Emeryville, Calif.).

"Modular blender with improved water heating and light beam detection" was invented by Steven T. Connell (Oakland, Calif.), John Diemer (Lafayette, Calif.), Kathleen A. Scheible (San Francisco), Kurt J. Ahmann (San Francisco), Patrick M. Goebel (San Francisco), Shek Fai Lau (Foster City, Calif.) and Curtis Tom (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a blender having a rotatable cutting blade in a food preparation chamber includes providing a sensing light assembly, generating at least one sensing light beam below the food p...