US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Sept. 8 for "Cooking appliance" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,861, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Cooking appliance" was invented by Yong Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Kyoung-Joon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jaekyung Yang (Seoul, South Korea) and Sangcheol Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance in which a plurality of transparent plates, which block heat generated in the cavity to protect a camera, are disposed not to be in direct contact with a camera module, and individual transparent plates are spaced apart from each other to form air layers so that the direct conduction of heat from the cavity to the camera c...