ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,966, issued on June 23, was assigned to CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Cooker hood with function of active noise cancellation" was invented by Cheng-Yuan Chang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooker hood with function of active noise cancellation is disclosed. The cooker hood comprises a hood body, a chimney, a fan motor, a sound-absorbing member, and an ANC system, in which the sound-absorbing member blocks or destroys a sound wave of a noise sound produced in case of the operation of the fan motor. The ANC system comprises reference microphones, error microphones, an electronic devic...