ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,497, issued on July 22, was assigned to SOCIETE DES PRODUITS NESTLE S.A. (Vevey, Switzerland).
"System for the preparation of a packaged food composition" was invented by Jurgen Seefried (Rielasingen-Worblingen, Germany), Johannes Peter Thoma (Radolfzell, Germany), Roberto Leal (Singen, Germany) and Lluis Guiteras Mombiola (Ins, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system for the preparation of a packaged food composition, wherein the system comprises a collecting unit, a weighing unit, a mixing unit, a filling unit, transferring units and a control unit."
The patent was filed on Sept. 30, 20...