ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,968, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Onward Multi-Corp Inc. (Waterloo, Canada).

"System, method and device for temperature control of gas cooking apparatus" was invented by Theodore Andrew Witzel (Waterloo, Canada), Colin Kirvan (Waterloo, Canada), Benjamin Harrison (Waterloo, Canada) and Kiel Webb (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a cooking apparatus having a main fuel manifold that provides fuel to at least one manual burner and at least one control valve, and at least one controlled fuel manifold in fluid communication with the at least one control valve, each controlled fuel manifold for p...