ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,814, issued on July 7, was assigned to Traeger Pellet Grills LLC (Salt Lake City).

"Methods of packaging and assembling outdoor grills, and related compactly packaged outdoor grills" was invented by Samuel Cook (Salt Lake City), Christian Whilhelm S. Mirasol (Nanshan, China), Max Hegewald (Salt Lake City) and James Wang (Sijing Town, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaged, unassembled wood-pellet grill device comprises a package container, a lid of the grill device disposed within the package container, and a hollow grill body of the grill device nested within the lid. The hollow grill body of the grill device has interior su...