US Patent Issued to MIDEA GROUP on Aug. 18 for "Microwave with controlled beverage warming" (Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,504, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to MIDEA GROUP Co. LTD. (Beijiao, China).

"Microwave with controlled beverage warming" was invented by John Kenneth Hooker (Louisville, Ky.), Matthew Melton (Fisherville, Ky.) and Rob Bultman (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave cooking appliance performs controlled beverage warming using a temperature sensor to capture a thermal image of a beverage in a cooking cavity. One or more sensing locations within the thermal image that are suitable for determining the temperature of the beverage are determined in part by ordering temperature readings from the thermal image by tempe...