ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,215, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Henny Penny Corp. (Eaton, Ohio).
"Staged fryer heating system" was invented by Melissa M. Hohler (Kettering, Ohio) and Kevin R. Romer (Fairfield Township, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer program products for controlling a heating system in a fryer. At startup, a setpoint temperature for a cooking medium is set to a melt temperature. While in melt mode, each of a plurality of heating elements each located in a different region of a fry pot is sequentially activated to control an amount of heat provided to the cooking medium. Once the cooking medium has reached ...