Patent ID: 11903403
Assignee: THE LUCKS COMPANY, LLC
Field: Food chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 0:
1. A system for producing edible decorations from edible decorating sheets, the system comprising:
at least one controller;
a transport system for transporting an edible decorating sheet comprising one or more layers of edible material deposited on a backing substrate; and
a laser cutting tool positioned along the transport system, the laser cutting tool comprising a memory, a coordinate system, a scan head, and a laser source for generating a laser beam directed by the scan head, wherein the laser cutting tool is configured to
accept the edible decorating sheet transported by the transport system within a cutting chamber of the laser cutting tool;

wherein the at least one controller is configured to create a plurality of edible decorations from the edible decorating sheet by directing the laser cutting tool to
ablate channels through the one or more layers of edible material and into the backing substrate, thereby substantially separating each edible decoration from the edible decorating sheet, and
ablate a respective pattern on each edible decoration of the plurality of edible decorations while controlling a depth of ablation by the laser beam to maintain the backing substrate intact beneath a path of the respective pattern, wherein,
for each decoration of the plurality of edible decorations, directing the laser cutting tool to ablate the respective pattern comprises directing, via the coordinate system, the scan head to follow a respective cutting design stored to the memory of the laser cutting tool;

wherein, after creating the plurality of edible decorations, the transport system transports the plurality of edible decorations out of the cutting chamber of the laser cutting tool; and
wherein each edible decoration is removable from the backing substrate by peeling the backing substrate away from the edible material.