ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,533, issued on May 27, was assigned to TECHMAGIC INC. (Tokyo).
"Cooking-container-holding unit and automatic cooking-container-conveying device incorporating same" was invented by Kohei Yokouchi (Tokyo), Naoto Watanabe (Tokyo) and Ryosuke Tajima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking-container-holding unit includes a pair of upper and lower container-holding parts that sandwich an annular circumferential wall portion of a cooking container, which has a container body and the annular circumferential wall portion that is concentric with the container body and extends at least in one of an upward direction and a downward direct...