ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,656, issued on June 24, was assigned to Rich Products Corp. (Buffalo, N.Y.).

"Food product dispenser with temperature control" was invented by Shawn Campbell (Burlington, Canada), Ralf Reiser (Orchard Park, N.Y.), Seung-Yeol Hong (Amherst, N.Y.) and Michael Paul Piatko (West Seneca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispenser configured to dispense a product from a product package includes an inlet configured to receive the product from the product package, a dispensing nozzle downstream of the inlet, a pump in fluid communication with the inlet and operable to pump the product from the product package to the dispensing nozzle, a...