US Patent Issued to Weber-Stephen Products on June 3 for "Slidable waste management systems for cookboxes of grills" (Illinois, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,038, issued on June 3, was assigned to Weber-Stephen Products LLC (Palatine, Ill.).

"Slidable waste management systems for cookboxes of grills" was invented by Douglas W. Masek (Palatine, Ill.), James Keclik (McHenry, Ill.), Michael A. Graef (Aurora, Ill.), Brian Mathews (Sycamore, Ill.), Nathan Mellas (Lenoir City, Tenn.), Nathan Ioriatti (Saint Charles, Ill.) and Nicholas M. Nanos Jr. (Crystal Lake, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Slidable waste management systems for cookboxes of grills are disclosed. An example waste management system is configured to be coupled to a cookbox of a grill. The example waste management system incl...