ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,750, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NIPPON CAREER INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (Matsuyama, Japan).
"Hand device, food dishing device using hand device, and food batch formation device" was invented by Suguru Mitani (Matsuyama, Japan), Masakazu Ogiyama (Matsuyama, Japan), Yasuo Miwa (Matsuyama, Japan), Takahiro Mukai (Matsuyama, Japan), Shinji Makino (Matsuyama, Japan), Kenji Takechi (Matsuyama, Japan) and Yu Yamada (Matsuyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand device for holding a food article with left and right finger-shaped portions that are configured to be operated to open and close. Each of the left and right finger-shaped p...