US Patent Issued to SharkNinja Operating on Aug. 18 for "Methods and systems for ignition of a smoke unit fuel source" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,237, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).

"Methods and systems for ignition of a smoke unit fuel source" was invented by Christopher T. Martin (North Attleboro, Mass.) and Nicholas Chow (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect, data characterizing a plurality of measurements of a rate of energy supplied to an igniter of a smoke unit and of a temperature of a region proximate the igniter, acquired during a predetermined period of time of igniter activation, can be received. A maximum time of igniter activation can be determined based on an average rate of energy supplied to the ignit...