ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,864, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Henny Penny Corp. (Eaton, Ohio).
"Combination pressure and open frying apparatus" was invented by Mark Gogel (Fairborn, Ohio), Matthew Johnson (Clayton, Ohio), Adrian Jason Pereira (Dayton, Ohio), Robert Wood (Vandalia, Ohio) and Wendell Murray (Somerville, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combination pressure and open frying apparatus includes at least one selectively closeable frypot and a cover configured to selectively close the frypot. The selectively closeable frypot is configured to operate as a pressure frying platform when the cover is closed and configured to operate as an open fry...