US Patent Issued to Premier Specialty Brands on July 29 for "Integrated kamado-style grill and smoker" (Alabama, Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,747, issued on July 29, was assigned to Premier Specialty Brands LLC (Chamblee, Ga.).

"Integrated kamado-style grill and smoker" was invented by Adam Carter (Auburn, Ala.), Donald Stephen Gazdick III (Suwanee, Ga.), Joseph Pruitt (Athens, Ga.), Daniel Mercer (Hamilton, Ga.) and Kyle Aasness (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments provide a kamado-style grill and smoker having one or more air-intake openings and one or more exhaust openings. Like conventional kamado-style grills and smokers, a user may manually adjust the air-intake opening(s) and/or exhaust opening(s) to manually control the air flow, and th...