ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,334, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Micro puree machine" was invented by Ming Li Shi (Guangdong, China), Xu Sheng Deng (HuiZhou, China), Pushan He (Shenzhen, China) and Ping Chu (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro puree machine including a housing, a power shaft, a bowl assembly and a platform. The power shaft extends from the housing. The bowl assembly including at least one locking bowl element. The platform includes at least one complementary locking platform element that is configured to engage the at least one locking bowl element such that rotation of the bo...