News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“Robotic automated food preparation systems have been developed for automating various kitchen operationsof a restaurant. For example, each of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 17/494,664 (filed on Oct. 5,2021) and U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 63/088,162 (filed on Oct. 6, 2020), each of whichis incorporated by reference in its entirety herein, disclose examples of robotic automated food preparationsystems that may be used to fry consumable items such as french fries, onion rings, chicken, and other typesof food items. Additionally, each of U.S patent application Ser. No. 18/098,437 (filed on Jan. 18, 2023),U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 63/300,445 (filed on Jan. 18, 2022), U.S. Provisional ApplicationSer. No. 63/349,873 (filed on Jun. 7, 2022), and U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 63/394,154(filed on Aug. 1, 2022), each of which is incorporated by reference in its entirety herein, disclose examplesof robotic food preparation systems that may be used to guide, move, or distribute various consumableitems (e.g., those mentioned above) throughout a cooking process to enable consistent, sterile, and/orautomated handling of the consumable items as the consumable items are prepared for consumption (e.g.,enabling the safe and consistent handling of recently fried consumable items). There is a continued desireto automate various aspects of food preparation.”
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