ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,012, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Timo Seine B.V. (Wijhe, Netherlands).
"Piping bag for dispensing a viscous mass of foodstuff" was invented by Timo Seine (Wijhe, Netherlands) and Egbert Willem Stegeman (Heino, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piping bag (1) for dispensing a viscous mass of foodstuff includes a dispensing opening structure (7) having first and second plates (11, 12), which are elastically deformable, and which are fixed relative to one another along their longitudinal opposite side edges (21A, 21B, 22A, 22B). The dispensing opening structure has a closed condition in which the first and second plates ...