ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,435, issued on April 21, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Microwave heating method and microwave heating device" was invented by Kun-Ping Huang (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Joseph Poujiong Wang (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Ming-Tsan Peng (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave heating method and a microwave heating device are provided. The microwave heating method includes the following steps. An electric field mode distribution at each frequency point generated by the microwave outputted from each input port of the heating chamber is calculated. A frequency, phase, a...