ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,362, issued on April 21, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Cooktop appliance sauce reduction mode" was invented by Eugenio Gomez (Louisville, Ky.), Eric Scott Johnson (Louisville, Ky.) and Omar Santana (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a cooktop appliance in a sauce reduction mode includes operating a heating element of the cooktop appliance at a first power level during a preheat stage and operating the heating element at a second power level during a reduction stage after the preheat stage. The second power level is different from the first power level. The m...