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

Claim 17:
18. A system comprising:
at least one controller; and
a plurality of production stages for producing edible decorations, the production stages comprising
a trimming stage comprising a first laser cutting tool, the first laser cutting tool configured to
accept an edible decorating sheet comprising one or more layers of edible material deposited on a backing substrate, and

an edible decoration creating stage comprising a second laser cutting tool, the edible decoration creating stage comprising
a scan head,
a laser source for generating a laser beam directed by the scan head,
a coordinate system, and
a memory; wherein

the at least one controller is configured to
1) direct the first laser cutting tool to form, from the edible decorating sheet, a plurality of edible decoration blanks, and
2) direct the second laser cutting tool to create a plurality of edible decorations from the edible decorating sheet by ablating channels through the one or more layers of edible material with the laser source of the second laser cutting tool, wherein,
for each decoration of the plurality of edible decorations, ablating the channels comprises directing, via the coordinate system of the second laser cutting tool, the scan head to follow a respective cutting design stored to the memory of the second laser cutting tool.