US Patent Issued to Mientras on March 18 for "Collapsible, modular, interchangeable and portable camping grill" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,045, issued on March 18, was assigned to Mientras LLC (Ridgewood, N.Y.).

"Collapsible, modular, interchangeable and portable camping grill" was invented by Julian Armand Jimarez Howard (Ridgewood, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collapsible, portable, and modular grill employing biomass fuel that can be prepared from two to seven components into multiple configurations for cooking and heating, and wherein all of the components are generally flat metal plates that can be packed into a single flat container that is moderately larger than the length and width of the largest flat component, and the container is high enough to fit ...