ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,151, issued on Nov. 3.
"Meat and other food smoker" was invented by Jose Hajime Takahashi (Marilia, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smoker for meats and other foods, belonging to the technical sector of barbecues and similar, of horizontal type, with displaced furnace and direct flow or vertical type smokers, is formed: by a smoking chamber and a furnace. The smoking chamber is formed by: a dividing plate; a lower chamber arranged in communication with the furnace; a smoking chamber itself; passages provided in the dividing plate through which the heated gases are fed into the smoking chamber itself; a set of grates disposed i...