ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,696, issued on March 17.

"Corn roaster" was invented by Farshid Partiyeli (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention involves an electrical corn-on-the-cob roaster including a repository with a cavity having a structure that generally forms a plurality of cylindrical tubes for receiving a plurality of cobs of corn. In exemplary embodiments, a corn roaster assembly includes a cover concealing a heating element, a repository including a cavity defined by the heating element, a and a removable cage forming a plurality of cylindrical receptacles, each of the plurality of cylindrical receptacles configured to receive a cob...