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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2022
Humangear, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher A. Miksovsky, Bend, OR (US);
Clint N. Slone, San Francisco, CA (US);
Evelyne Chaubert, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charlie Nghiem, Oakland, CA (US);
Robert Charles Lane, Belmont, CA (US);
Jonathan Paul Downing, Belmont, CA (US);
humangear, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
An eating utensil having a fork head that includes a plurality of tines and a concave fork bowl portion is described. One or both of the outer tines include a chamfered or tapered surface that extends laterally inward from a curved outer edge of the corresponding outer tine such that the curved tine/fork head edge acts as a splitting feature. In some embodiments one or both of the curved fork head edges that act as a splitting feature is/are smooth. In some embodiments, the eating utensil is formed of a glass reinforced thermoplastic material such as a glass filled nylon.