US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Oct. 27 for "Cooking appliance" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,562, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cooking appliance" was invented by Younghwan Kwack (Seoul, South Korea) and Seongho Son (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance includes an upper plate configured to support an object to be heated, a working coil configured to generate a magnetic field to heat the object to be heated, an inverter configured apply current to the working coil, an intermediate heating body located at the upper plate, the intermediate heating body configured to generate an eddy current when the magnetic field passes therethrough, and a switch...