US Patent Issued on July 22 for "Systems and methods for frying food products" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,278, issued on July 22.

"Systems and methods for frying food products" was invented by David Tieman (Saratoga Springs, Utah) and John Olsen (Riverton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations of the described methods relate to a process for frying coffee beans (and/or another food product) in a fry medium (such as cooking oil) and then centrifuging the coffee beans (and/or other food product) to remove a significant portion of the fry medium. Although the frying and centrifugation can occur in separate devices, in some cases, the described systems comprise a device that acts as both a fryer and a centrifuge. Indeed, i...