ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,683, issued on July 8, was assigned to Fritsch Bakery Technologies GmbH & Co. KG (Markt Einersheim, Germany).

"Method for severing dough portions from a dough mass" was invented by Alex Wagner (Wuerzburg, Germany) and Thomas Ebert (Dettelbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for severing a dough portion from a dough mass by a dough portioning device having a container, a first portioning roller having a plurality of severing edges and a second portioning roller having a plurality of severing edges, wherein a depression is respectively provided between two severing edges. The method comprises rotating the first and seco...