ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,428, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Noritake Co. Ltd. (Japan).
"Baked object taking-out apparatus" was invented by Hiromu Kondo (Nagoya, Japan), Kenichi Tanaka (Nagoya, Japan), Akira Sakai (Nagoya, Japan) and Hidetaka Kato (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The baked object taking-out apparatus is an apparatus that takes out a baked object from a baking base plate including a disposing surface on which the baked object is disposed. The baked object taking-out apparatus includes a robot arm, a holding member that is provided on the robot arm, that is formed of a metal material, and that is capable of holding the bakin...