ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,660, issued on July 14, was assigned to NOVY NV (Kuurne, Belgium).
"Cooking assembly" was invented by Henk Huisseune (Melle, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking assembly comprising a countertop (6) and an induction cooking device (1) attached to the bottom (8) of the countertop (6). The induction cooking device comprises: an induction coil formed from a wire having a substantially uniform non-circular cross-section which is higher than it is wide and which is at a distance (d6) from a top surface (7) of the countertop between 10 and 50 mm, said induction coil having an outer diameter and an inner diameter which is at lea...