ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,641, issued on March 25, was assigned to GOPIZZA Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for pizza preparation" was invented by Jae Won Lim (Seoul, South Korea) and Beom-Jin Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a technology for guiding a person to prepare foods at a food preparation station. The food preparation station has a plurality of food pans. The technology may track location changes of the food pans or ingredients contained in the food pans, and indicating the current location of an ingredient when needed. The technology monitors a dish being prepared, and provides a step-by-step guida...