US Patent Issued to Little Caesar Enterprises on July 1 for "System for dispensing ingredients" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,474, issued on July 1, was assigned to Little Caesar Enterprises Inc. (Detroit).

"System for dispensing ingredients" was invented by Kent A. Deemter (Hudsonville, Mich.), R. William Kneifel II (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Eric Brasseur (Detroit), Edward Gleich (Detroit), Anita Klopfenstein (Detroit), David Scrivano (South Lyon, Mich.), Dana Tilley (Detroit), Thomas Hennessy (Royal Oak, Mich.), Kyle M. Bey (Davison, Mich.), Evan Allen (Detroit) and Alex Szmatula (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for dispensing ingredients includes a cabinet and a conveyor disposed beneath the cabinet. The conveyor includes a staging region ...