US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Feb. 17 for "Induction heating type cooktop having improved usability" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,187, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Induction heating type cooktop having improved usability" was invented by Jongwon Hwang (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunwoo Jun (Seoul, South Korea), Jaekyung Yang (Seoul, South Korea), Eunjin Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Juwon Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An induction heating type cooktop includes: a case, a cover plate that is coupled to an upper end of the case and that includes an upper plate arranged to receive a target object, a working coil that is disposed in the case and that is configured to heat the target object, a ther...