ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,593, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Logan Outdoor Products LLC (Hyde Park, Utah).
"Vertical smoker" was invented by Brett Petersen Bennett (Mantua, Utah), Ryan Tighe Anderson (Preston, Idaho), Mason Jake Larsen (Smithfield, Utah) and Max Ryan Messerli (Tremonton, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical smoker including an external housing, one or more sidewalls at least partially defining a cooking chamber within the external housing, a solid fuel combustion unit configured to combust solid fuel and produce smoke and heat, a drip tray disposed above the solid fuel combustion unit and forming a floor of the cooking chamber, t...