ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,999, issued on March 3.

"System and method for controlling a heating device" was invented by Uday Singh (Stewartsville, N.J.), Tejas Singh (Boston), Santhosh Xavier (Robbinsville, N.J.), Neha Singh (Brookly, N.Y.), Shrey Mathur (Aurora, Ill.), Anirudh Kotte (Secunderabad, India) and Renu Kasarla (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a heating device by monitoring the status of any dish being cooked. The system is provided with connectivity to cloud server comprising the relevant reference data, one or more sensors configured to monitor the status of dish being cooked, and processing circuitry that prev...