US Patent Issued to FRYMASTER on May 5 for "Convection deep fat fryer heating system" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,338, issued on May 5, was assigned to FRYMASTER LLC (Shreveport, La.).

"Convection deep fat fryer heating system" was invented by Jan Claesson (Land O' Lakes, Fla.), Daryl G. Erbs (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) and Douglas S. Jones (New Port Richey, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating system for a fluid includes a double helical coil of continuous tube, a burner, and a containment structure. The double helical coil has an inlet and an outlet disposed at a bottom end and a plurality of external radial fins spaced apart along a length thereof. The burner is centered in the double helical coil and disposed above the inlet and the outlet...