ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,719, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to POTAMA Co. LTD. (Okinawa, Japan).
"Jig for forming plate-shaped cooked rice and device for producing plate-shaped cooked rice" was invented by Katsuaki Kiyokawa (Okinawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plate-shaped cooked rice molding jig includes: a molding frame having a through window formed of a side molding surface that molds an outer peripheral side portion of the plate-shaped cooked rice; and a base plate having lower portion molding surface for molding a bottom side portion of the plate-shaped cooked rice on an upper surface thereof. In a state where the molding frame is placed ...