US Patent Issued to Alto-Shaam on Nov. 18 for "Combination oven with independent steam generation element" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,066, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Alto-Shaam Inc. (Menomonee Falls, Wis.).

"Combination oven with independent steam generation element" was invented by Joshua J. Shimel (Waukesha, Wis.), Jon Paul Flick (Wales, Wis.) and Craig Douglas Burnett (Slinger, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular oven includes a cabinet receiving separate modules with distinct cooking operations. Modules of the modular oven may provide any combination of convection cooking, steam cooking, impingement cooking, and high speed cooking. Therefore, the modules may be mixed and matched to suit the desired cooking operations. In some embodiments, impr...