ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,940, issued on April 7, was assigned to BREVILLE PTY Ltd. (Alexandria, Australia).
"Toaster" was invented by Stephen John McClean (Alexandria, Australia), Johnson Thie (Alexandria, Australia), Duncan Bruce Hellmers (Alexandria, Australia), Ali Tofaili (Alexandria, Australia) and Alastair Leonard Dover V (Alexandria, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toaster heating assembly (55A, 55B) including: a frame (60); a panel (65) at least partly supported by the frame (60); a spacer (80) mounted to the panel (65); and an elongate heating element (93) having a plurality of spaced apart elongate heating element portions (95) supported...