ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,307, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Grupo Bimbo S.A.B. de C.V. (Santa Fe, Mexico).

"Food delivery system for packaging of food and method of delivering food to be packaged" was invented by Jose Antonio Contreras Gamboa (Fort Worth, Texas), Gerald Edward Holt (St. Charles, Mo.) and Pablo Rodriguez (Plymouth, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery system that includes a surface having a surface upon which a food item is placed. An array of sensors positioned above the surface and which takes multiple readings of the food item on the surface. A processor that analyzes the multiple readings and generates a height profile for ...