US Patent Issued to Henny Penny on June 17 for "Automatic fryer with heaters enabling reduced oil volume" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,318, issued on June 17, was assigned to Henny Penny Corp. (Eaton, Ohio).

"Automatic fryer with heaters enabling reduced oil volume" was invented by Kimberly Reichelderfer (Springfield, Ohio) and Stephen L. Wilks (Trotwood, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic cooking system is provided to reduce and/or optimize the amount of cooking medium required to operate the fryer, while improving the temperature and flow characteristics of cooking medium in the fryer. To this end, the cooking vat of the system is designed with one or more heating elements and one or more lanes for flow of cooking medium and food products between inl...