US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on April 7 for "Control unit and cooking appliance including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,917, issued on April 7, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Control unit and cooking appliance including the same" was invented by Sungkyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sanghun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hanjin Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit for a cooking appliance including a base configured to be coupled to a cooking appliance, a knob rotatably disposed at the base, and a cover ring coupled to the base to surround the base. The cover ring may be mounted on the base by rotating the cover ring in a first direction with respect to the base, and removed from the base by rot...