US Patent Issued to BREVILLE on July 21 for "Cooking appliance and humidity sensor for same" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,513, issued on July 21, was assigned to BREVILLE PTY Ltd. (Alexandria, Australia).

"Cooking appliance and humidity sensor for same" was invented by Stephen John Mcclean (Alexandria, Australia), Duncan Bruce Hellmers (Alexandria, Australia) and Johnson Thie (Alexandria, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments of a humidity sensor for a cooking appliance are provided. The humidity sensor comprises: a sensor assembly comprising: conductive plates having a space located therebetween, wherein the conductive plates are electrically charged and subsequently discharged over time; a dielectric plate locatable in the space...