US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Nov. 3 for "Induction heating apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,120, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Induction heating apparatus" was invented by Kyelyong Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Jinwook Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An induction heating apparatus of one embodiment may comprise a rectifying circuit rectifying an AC voltage supplied from a power source, a smoothing circuit connecting to the rectifying circuit and smoothing a voltage output from the rectifying circuit, a first switching element having a first terminal that connects to a working coil, and a second terminal that connects to the smoothing circuit, a second swit...