US Patent Issued on May 26 for "Pan and method of panning" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,659, issued on May 26.

"Pan and method of panning" was invented by Klinton D. Washburn (Willard, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gold pan and method of panning. A concave pan with lip and an array of curved ribs with linear central regions coupled to and extending above and forward from lip, each rib including a cavity oriented to be orthogonal to the concavity of the pan to trap material flowing thereover. The lip has a front region with a greater radius of curvature than a radius of curvature of a back region. There are a plurality of finishing fins extending into an interior of the concave pan from a back wall or side wall th...