Patents by Inventor Sasenka Kukolj

Sasenka Kukolj has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • FOOD PAN COOLING SYSTEM WITH ONE OR MORE PERFORATED FOOD PANS
    Publication number: 20250098850
    Abstract: A food preparation table includes a housing at least in part defining multiple food pan receiving locations and a cooling air flow path internal of the housing below the food pan receiving locations. A first food pan is positioned within a first one of the food pan receiving locations such that side walls and a bottom wall of the first food pan are within the cooling air flow path, a first one of the side walls of the first food pan includes a plurality of openings therein to permit some cooling air to enter the first food pan and flow in contact with food items therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Liqun REN, Sasenka KUKOLJ, Ashutosh A. POTDAR, James R. WRIGHT
  • Food pan cooling system with one or more perforated food pans
    Patent number: 12201212
    Abstract: A food preparation table includes a housing at least in part defining multiple food pan receiving locations and a cooling air flow path internal of the housing below the food pan receiving locations. A first food pan is positioned within a first one of the food pan receiving locations such that side walls and a bottom wall of the first food pan are within the cooling air flow path, a first one of the side walls of the first food pan includes a plurality of openings therein to permit some cooling air to enter the first food pan and flow in contact with food items therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Liqun Ren, Sasenka Kukolj, Ashutosh A. Potdar, James R. Wright
  • FOOD PAN COOLING SYSTEM WITH ONE OR MORE PERFORATED FOOD PANS
    Publication number: 20220151377
    Abstract: A food preparation table includes a housing at least in part defining multiple food pan receiving locations and a cooling air flow path internal of the housing below the food pan receiving locations. A first food pan is positioned within a first one of the food pan receiving locations such that side walls and a bottom wall of the first food pan are within the cooling air flow path, a first one of the side walls of the first food pan includes a plurality of openings therein to permit some cooling air to enter the first food pan and flow in contact with food items therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Liqun REN, Sasenka KUKOLJ, Ashutosh A. POTDAR, James R. WRIGHT
  • Food preparation table
    Patent number: 9943178
    Abstract: A food preparation table includes a food item catchment system including a modular grate and catch pan arrangement positioned atop an upwardly facing surface of the table and including multiple catch pans, multiple frames and multiple grates, each of which is removable for cleaning of the upwardly facing surface and for cleaning of the catch pans, frames and grates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Yevgeniy Savinskiy, Christopher A. Henderson, Sasenka Kukolj
  • FOOD PREPARATION TABLE
    Publication number: 20160345753
    Abstract: A food preparation table includes a food item catchment system comprising a modular grate and catch pan arrangement positioned atop an upwardly facing surface of the table and including multiple catch pans, multiple frames and multiple grates, each of which is removable for cleaning of the upwardly facing surface and for cleaning of the catch pans, frames and grates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Yevgeniy Savinskiy, Christopher A. Henderson, Sasenka Kukolj