ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,342, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to BSH Home Appliances Corp. (Irvine, Calif.) and BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich).

"Cooking program development system" was invented by Garrett Bentley (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Luc Lam (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking program development system may include a cooking program developer tool configured to facilitate the creation of automated cooking programs, a cooking program feedback tool configured to facilitate utilizing user feedback to modify and improve the automated cooking programs, and a cooking program marketplace configured to facilitate the sharing of the automated cooki...