US Patent Issued to Hamilton Beach Brands on April 7 for "Multi-functional oven with air fryer capability" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,937, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hamilton Beach Brands Inc. (Glen Allen, Va.).

"Multi-functional oven with air fryer capability" was invented by William D Starr (Richmond, Va.) and Lynda Musante (Midlothian, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-functional oven includes: a housing having a floor, a rear wall, a ceiling, and first and second side walls; a door that serves as a front wall of the housing; an internal side wall that divides the housing into a cooking cavity and an control cavity; a removable cooking rack that defines a cooking surface; a lower heating element positioned in a lower region of the cooking cavity...