ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,582, issued on July 7, was assigned to Haier US Appliance Solutions Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Cooking appliance and method of operating the same to synchronize cooking times for multiple zones" was invented by Eric Scott Johnson (Louisville, Ky.) and James Lee Armstrong (Louisville, Ky.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a cooking appliance includes receiving one or more inputs for a cooking sequence including a first food item at a first temperature and a second food item at a second temperature; determining a first energy transfer value for the first food item and a second energy transfer value for the second food ...