ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,393, issued on April 15.
"Air fryer with vibrating or rotating pot and induction cooking unit for robotic and automated food preparation systems" was invented by David Ben-David (Rehovot, Israel) and Yair Gordin (Modiin, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is to provide a cooking apparatus to operate in an automated/robotic environment containing 3 major sub-units: air fryer hood, a rotating or a vibrating pot and an induction heating subunit. The air fryer hood of the air fryer subunit streams high velocity, heated air, circulating it in the cooking pot which is rotated, generating a stirring motion of the foo...