ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,096, issued on April 29, was assigned to GMG Products LLC (Lakeside, Ore.).

"BBQ oven" was invented by David W. Baker (Lakeside, Ore.), Jason E. Baker (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Wang Ping (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a BBQ oven, comprising an oven, a loading container and a mixing unit. The loading container is arranged on the oven, having a loading inlet on the top and a discharge outlet at the bottom; the mixing unit includes a mixing driver positioned on the side wall of the loading container and a mixer connected to the mixing driver. The BBQ oven requires no manual turning to preven...