US Patent Issued on May 19 for "Flat top gas grills including cooking engines configured for optimum heat distribution" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,984, issued on May 19.

"Flat top gas grills including cooking engines configured for optimum heat distribution" was invented by John R. Ciccone (Itasca, Ill.), Joshua Lee (Palatine, Ill.), Douglas W. Masek (Palatine, Ill.), Curtis P. Menning (Palatine, Ill.) and Mohammed Shoeb (Hoffman Estates, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flat top gas grills including cooking engines configured for optimum heat distribution are disclosed. An example grill includes a cookbox, a griddle, and a plurality of burner tubes. The cookbox includes a bottom wall, a front wall, a rear wall, a right sidewall, and a left sidewall. The front wall, the rear ...