ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,613, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Oven appliance and embossed heat shield for an oven appliance" was invented by Rebekah Leigh Tyler (Louisville, Ky.) and Hans Juergen Paller (Simpsonville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oven appliance includes a cabinet forming an oven cavity; a bottom wall provided within the oven cavity and defining a cooking chamber and a burner housing positioned below the cooking chamber along the vertical direction; a heat shield accommodated within the burner housing beneath the bottom wall along the vertical direction, the heat shield includ...