ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,772, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MP EQUIPMENT LLC (Gainesville, Ga.).

"Rotatable system to repetitively prepare food patties from a source of flowing food" was invented by Gary Cowart (Gainesville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for preparing a plurality of uniformly formed food products. The apparatus includes a rotatable mold plate with a plurality of voids, the plurality of voids are collected into one or more sets of voids in close proximity to each other. A first cover plate is fixed with the mold plate rotatable about the first cover plate. First and second apertures are disposed through the first cover ...