US Patent Issued to GRUPO BIMBO S.A.B. on March 25 for "Food delivery system for packaging of food and method of delivering food to be packaged" (Missouri, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,158, issued on March 25, was assigned to GRUPO BIMBO S.A.B. DE C.V. (Mexico D.F., 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) and Gerald Edward Holt (St. Charles, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flipping station including a moving surface upon which an upside-down food item is placed and a ramp spaced from the moving surface so that a gap is defined between the moving surface and the ramp. The moving surface is moving at a sufficient speed so that the upside-down food item has sufficient momentum to travel pa...