ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,975, issued on May 19, was assigned to Makita Corp. (Anjo, Japan).
"Electric kettle" was invented by Atsushi Hori (Anjo, Japan) and Yasuyuki Fujimoto (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric kettle includes: a kettle body having a power receiving connection part and a heating part; a power supply unit including a power supply base having a power supply connection part, and a mounting unit; and a detection part. The detection part is configured to detect whether the kettle body is on the power supply base. The electric kettle is configured to supply power to the heating part via the power supply connection part and the p...