US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Aug. 18 for "Food pan cooling system with one or more perforated food pans" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,199, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Food pan cooling system with one or more perforated food pans" was invented by Liqun Ren (Haslet, Texas), Sasenka Kukolj (Keller, Texas), Ashutosh A. Potdar (Fort Worth, Texas) and James R. Wright (Grand Prairie, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food preparation table includes a housing at least in part defining multiple food pan receiving locations and a cooling air flow path internal of the housing below the food pan receiving locations. A first food pan is positioned within a first one of the food pan receiving locations such that side walls ...