US Patent Issued to TAYLOR COMMERCIAL FOODSERVICE on July 1 for "Cooking gap control of a cooking apparatus" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,958, issued on July 1, was assigned to TAYLOR COMMERCIAL FOODSERVICE LLC (Rockton, Ill.).

"Cooking gap control of a cooking apparatus" was invented by Jeffrey L. Sands (Freeport, Ill.), Ronald J. Glavan (Rockton, Ill.), Dennis J. Nelson (Rockton, Ill.) and Otley D. Freymiller (Deerfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a cooking apparatus includes identifying an initial thickness of a food product on a lower heating plate of the cooking apparatus and calculating a difference between an initial gap value corresponding to the initial thickness of the food product and a predefined final gap value. The method i...