ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,703, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KALITA Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Electric kettle" was invented by Ichiro Ishida (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric kettle includes a power supply base, and a kettle main body to be removably mounted on the power supply base. The kettle main body has: a container having a bottomed cylindrical shape that contains a liquid; a nozzle provided in a lower part of a side surface of the container; and a valve mechanism that opens and closes a flow channel for the liquid from the container to the nozzle."
The patent was filed on July 26, 2023, under Application No. 18/226,32...