ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,506, issued on June 23, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Microwave treatment device" was invented by Daisuke Hosokawa (Shiga, Japan), Chikako Hosokawa (Shiga, Japan), Yoshiharu Oomori (Shiga, Japan), Hideki Nakamura (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuki Maeda (Shiga, Japan) and Takashi Uno (Shiga, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microwave treatment device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a heating chamber, a microwave generator, an amplifier, a feeder, a detector, a controller, and a storage. The microwave generator generates a microwave having an arbitrary frequen...