ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,216, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Electric range" was invented by Seunghak Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Junghyeon Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric range includes a heating part configured to heat an object based on an electromagnetic interaction. The heating part may include a core frame having a plurality of channels disposed radially on a lower surface thereof and a plurality of ferrite cores mounted onto the channels and disposed under the core frame. The core frame include a plurality of air gaps disposed between the plurality of channels. The plur...