US Patent Issued on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for collecting fats, oils, and grease from updraft ventilators" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,503, issued on Sept. 29.

"Systems and methods for collecting fats, oils, and grease from updraft ventilators" was invented by Martin Franklin Mccarthy (Charlotte, N.C.) and Sean Thomas Mccarthy (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of capturing and disposing of fats, oil and/or grease includes: positioning an updraft ventilator in flow communication with a source of airflow having fats, oils, and/or grease entrained therein; providing a porous container formed of a porous fabric filled with an absorbent material capable of absorbing a quantity of the fats, oil, and/or grease through the porous fabric of the porous...