US Patent Issued to FBS on Nov. 25 for "Sealed, self-cleaning, food dispensing system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,078, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to FBS Partnership LP (San Antonio).

"Sealed, self-cleaning, food dispensing system" was invented by Craig Cloud (New Braunfels, Texas), Marshall G. Carter (San Antonio), Cameron C. Crandall (San Antonio) and Stephen K. Versteeg (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealed pressurized food dispensing system with self-cleaning features that can include a freezing barrel, a faceplate defining a dispense bore and a cleaning bypass passage passing through the faceplate and having an open end, where the dispenser can also include a valve stem that may be moved between a dispensing position and ...