ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,983, issued on May 19, was assigned to Electrolux Home Products Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Air fry cooking method and apparatus" was invented by Steven M. Swayne (Springfield, Tenn.) and Timothy Turner (Springfield, Tenn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for cooking food in an oven cavity, where air is the cooking medium. Using a predetermined cooking algorithm, a temperature of the oven cavity is adjusted in a plurality of temperature and/or time regulated cooking stages. An initial pre-heat stage targets a first target temperature including a user-selected oven cavity temperature plus a first offset. A subsequent p...