US Patent Issued to North Atlantic Imports on June 16 for "Outdoor cooking station with a pellet feeder for smoking food" (Utah, Missouri, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,340, issued on June 16, was assigned to North Atlantic Imports LLC (Providence, Utah).

"Outdoor cooking station with a pellet feeder for smoking food" was invented by Tyler J. Fullmer (Smithfield, Utah), Christopher L. Hanks (Logan, Utah), David Clark (Saratoga Springs, Utah), Michael R. Giebel (Joplin, Mo.) and Paul J. Simon (Elizabethtown, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of an outdoor cooking station having a main body with a pellet feeding system integrated with the cooking station for feeding heated smoke to a cooking chamber. The pellet feeding system utilizes a paddle wheel for feeding pellets to be burned and ge...