ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,716, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to FOSHAN SHUNDE MIDEA ELECTRICAL HEATING APPLIANCES MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Foshan, China).
"Cookware detection circuit using half-bridge drive heating, heating device, cookware detection method, and storage medium" was invented by Lutian Zeng (Foshan, China), Chengbin Zhu (Foshan, China), Jun Lei (Foshan, China), Deyong Jiang (Foshan, China), Wenhua Liu (Foshan, China) and Yunfeng Wang (Foshan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cookware detection circuit includes a control module configured to output a single pulse cookware detection signal to a half-bridge drive module of an electromagneti...