US Patent Issued to Henny Penny on Dec. 9 for "Cooking systems with spreader bar" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,863, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Henny Penny Corp. (Eaton, Ohio).

"Cooking systems with spreader bar" was invented by Randy Caudill (Hamilton, Ohio) and Mark Gogel (Fairborn, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are disclosed for cleaning a fryer using a washing element coupled to a bottom wall of a cooking chamber. An upper portion of the washing element extends above the bottom wall of the cooking chamber and includes a plurality of spray jet nozzles that are separated at predetermined angles relative to one another around a periphery of the upper portion of the washing element to orient the plurality of spray jet nozzl...