Apparatus and system for popping kernels

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9179696
APP PUB NO 20140251156A1
SERIAL NO

13794210

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The present invention relates to improved devices and methods for popping popcorn, comprising moving popcorn kernels within a heating chamber with airflow and subjecting the popcorn kernels to focused microwave energy sufficient to cause the popcorn kernels to pop. In some embodiments, the devices and methods utilize a single-mode resonant microwave applicator to generate a standing microwave energy field comprising an array of one or more anti-node high intensity microwave regions and subjecting popcorn kernels to the microwave energy in the one or more high intensity microwave regions.

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JACOBSEN INNOVATIONS INC28 SOUTH 400 EAST SALT LAKE CITY UT 84111

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Jacobsen, Stephen C Salt Lake City, US 297 18236
McCullough, John Salt Lake City, US 36 837

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