ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,604, issued on Nov. 18.
"Automatic smoker" was invented by Shaoyan Zheng (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic smoker includes a smoker body, a pipe and a base. The pipe has a combustion chamber, an inner wall of the combustion chamber is defined with at least one smoke outlet por. The smoker body and the base are detachably assembled, and the pipe is arranged between the smoker body and the base. The smoker body includes an automatic igniter, the automatic igniter includes an ignition needle, the ignition needle extends into the combustion chamber and is configured to ignite a combustion medium within the com...