US Patent Issued to Franke Technology and Trademark on July 7 for "Cooking hood vent with predictive event recognition" (Alabama, Tennessee, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,585, issued on July 7, was assigned to Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd. (Hergiswil, Switzerland).

"Cooking hood vent with predictive event recognition" was invented by Mark Ashley (Section, Ala.), Alan Greer (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) and Gregory Richards (Deerfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking exhaust hood system, that has an exhaust hood adapted to be located over at least one cooking appliance and an exhaust fan connected to the exhaust hood, with the exhaust fan having a controllable exhaust air flow volume. A camera monitors a surface of the at least one cooking appliance and provide an image signal representing ...