US Patent Issued to W.C. Bradley on May 26 for "Electric grill and smoking device" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,826, issued on May 26, was assigned to W.C. Bradley Co. (Columbus, Ga.).

"Electric grill and smoking device" was invented by William Dixon (Columbus, Ga.), Alex Gafford (Midland, Ga.), Ramin Khosravi Rahmani (Columbus, Ga.), Sleiman Abdallah (Columbus, Ga.) and Thomas Kessler (Columbus, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking apparatus includes a first electric heating element, a reflective surface below the first electric heating element, and a cooking surface above the first electric heating element. The cooking surface is heated by radiant energy from the electric heating element and becomes heated to emit heat to food on the ...