US Patent Issued to Hauslane on Aug. 4 for "Automated range hood for ventilating a cooking surface" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,906, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Hauslane Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Automated range hood for ventilating a cooking surface" was invented by Jiaxing Ruan (San Francisco) and Aurelio Reyes (Mooresville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated range hood includes a controller that selects a fan speed for one or more ventilation assemblies by identifying a minimum number of pixels that satisfy a threshold. The controller automatically turns on one or more light sources to illuminate a surface under the range hood when motion is detected or when the one or more ventilation assemblies are in use."

The patent was f...