US Patent Issued on May 27 for "Apparatus and assembly for the cleaning and cooking of seafood and crustacea" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,377, issued on May 27.

"Apparatus and assembly for the cleaning and cooking of seafood and crustacea" was invented by Tim McDonald (Missouri City, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for cleaning and cooking seafood or crustacea has a container with an interior volume defined by a wall, a basket removably received in the interior volume of the container, a pipe positioned adjacent to the wall and having a plurality of apertures adapted to direct the flow of water into an interior of the basket, a connector fluidically connected to the pipe, and a pot spaced from the container. The container has a bottom and an upper edge...