ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,187, issued on June 17, was assigned to Frito-Lay Trading Co. GmbH (Spitalgasse, Great Britain).
"Tuber peeling apparatus and method" was invented by Greg Hilliard (Leicester, Great Britain), Mick Anderson (Leicester, Great Britain), Fred Bourg (Plano, Texas) and Terry Connell (Leicester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of peeling tubers includes providing a peeler device defining a cavity surrounded by a peeling mechanism, inputting tubers to be peeled into the cavity, directing electromagnetic radiation from an illumination device into the cavity-detecting electromagnetic radiation reflected into lens of a cam...