ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,434, issued on April 21, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Cooking appliance coffee roasting pan" was invented by Ju Chan Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Youngjin Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Hyuk-Chul Kwon (Seongnam, South Korea), Byung Cheon Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hwanjae Yeo (Seoul-si, South Korea) and Kyung-Ho Choo (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance and a roasting assembly configured to be removably mounted within such cooking appliance are provided. The roasting assembly includes a pan defining an internal volume. The pan is configured to be ro...