ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,697, issued on March 17.
"Outdoor cooking assembly" was invented by Roderick King (Mobile, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An outdoor cooking assembly includes a barrel and a cooking support that is slidable into the barrel thereby facilitating the cooking support to support a food item for cooking. A fire pan is slidable into the barrel to contain a burning fuel to facilitate the cooking panel to cook the food item. A table is movably disposed on the barrel and the table is positionable between a deployed position and a stored position. A plurality of cooking panels is provided and a respective one of the cooking panels is posi...