Herbert Ralph "Herb" Peterson (January 5, 1919 – March 25, 2008) was an American fast food advertising executive and food scientist most known for being the inventor of the McDonald's Egg McMuffin in 1972. The breakfast business that he pioneered with this item had grown to an estimated $4–5 billion in annual revenues for the fast food restaurant chain McDonald's by 1993.
Herbert Peterson was over 50 years old when he invented the Egg McMuffin.
He was 53 when he created the Egg McMuffin, the system may not have detected this because it involved indirect math.