ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,960, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dansons US LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"Grill feed and burn system" was invented by Justin Johnson (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Christopher James (Phoenix).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a cooking appliance for cooking with a fuel includes a hopper configured to hold the fuel and a burn pot configured to receive the fuel and hold the fuel during combustion thereof. A feed tube extends from an upstream end, proximate the hopper, to a downstream end, proximate the burn pot, wherein the feed tube is configured to move the fuel from the upstream end to the downstream end. The upstream end of th...