ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,067, issued on May 20.

"Reversible cooking grate" was invented by Mark Sousa (Hope, R.I.) and Wai Ho (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-purpose cooking grate has a planar perforated grid with a flat grilling side and a pizza-cooking side. The pizza-cooking side includes features to support a pizza-cooking stone such that a vertical distance is maintained there-between, and locators to engage the periphery of the stone so that it is horizontally restrained."

The patent was filed on Feb. 3, 2022, under Application No. 17/591,911.

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