ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,200, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to humangear Inc. (San Francisco).
"Eating utensil" was invented by Christopher A. Miksovsky (Bend, Ore.), Clint N. Slone (San Francisco), Evelyne Chaubert (San Francisco), Charlie Nghiem (Oakland, Calif.), Robert Charles Lane (Belmont, Calif.) and Jonathan Paul Downing (Belmont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eating utensil having a fork head that includes a plurality of tines and a concave fork bowl portion is described. One or both of the outer tines include a chamfered or tapered surface that extends laterally inward from a curved outer edge of the corresponding outer tine such that ...