US Patent Issued to NanoRacks on Sept. 2 for "Space oven" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,011, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NanoRacks LLC (Webster, Texas).

"Space oven" was invented by Michael Desmond Lewis (Kemah, Texas) and Caleb Michael Daugherty (League City, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A space oven operates in microgravity environments by forcing convection towards the center through a unique heating element and airflow design. The space oven includes a tubular chamber, a heating rack, a heating system, a cooling system, a hatch, a user interface, a microcontroller, an enclosure, at least one first vent, at least one second vent and at least one temperature sensor. The tubular chamber is the cooking ar...