ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,602, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Insitu Foods Inc. (Toledo, Ohio).

"Dough dividing systems" was invented by Rick Anderson (Toledo, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dough dividing system is disclosed including a hopper for receiving dough and a divider assembly. The hopper includes a hopper inlet and a hopper outlet. The divider assembly includes a divider block having a divider block cavity, and a first actuator operable to move the divider block between a first position in which the divider block cavity is positioned under the hopper outlet, and a second position in the divider block cavity is positioned over a recepta...