US Patent Issued to Marmon Foodservice Technologies on Dec. 9 for "System and method of broiler heating element control" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,858, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Marmon Foodservice Technologies Inc. (Osseo, Minn.).

"System and method of broiler heating element control" was invented by Nicholas Mandarino (Aurora, Ill.), Jonathan Sammon (Oak Park, Ill.), Benjamin Slotarski (Palatine, Ill.), Christian Braun (Lake Forest, Ill.) and Leonard Zelek (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of heat sources are arranged about at least one conveyor. The plurality of heat sources are configured to output heat towards the at least one conveyor. At least one temperature sensor is arranged at a food product inlet relative to the at least one conveyor. A contr...