ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,174, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to DUKE MANUFACTURING Co. (St. Louis).
"Oven for heating food" was invented by Michael McGaha (St. Louis), Dean Meyer (St. Louis), Alyssa DeGreeff (St. Louis) and Tom Rand (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oven for heating food and associated components and methods. The oven includes a food heating compartment bounding a food holding space for holding food to be heated. The food holding space has an open top. A bottom wall of the food heating compartment supports food in the food holding space and has gas flow inlets. A gas supply plenum is disposed below the food holding space and is i...