ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,155, issued on April 14, was assigned to Fireboard Labs LLC (Kansas City, Mo.).
"System and method of non-linear cook time estimation" was invented by Steven Matthew Briggeman (Kansas City, Mo.) and Theodore Thomas Conrad (Olathe, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for food cook completion estimation that includes: acquiring food temperature data from a first food item, the food temperature data comprising a plurality of food temperatures detected at a plurality of different times and reflecting a change in food temperature over time; selecting, based on the change in food temperature, a first non-line...