US Patent Issued to Pitco Frialator on June 23 for "Cook top assembly having a monitoring system and method of monitoring a cooking process" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,157, issued on June 23, was assigned to Pitco Frialator LLC (Elgin, Ill.).

"Cook top assembly having a monitoring system and method of monitoring a cooking process" was invented by Nathaniel A. Lambert (Hooksett, N.H.), Steven J. Cyr (Londonderry, N.H.) and Michael T. Fecteau (Derry, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cook top assembly includes a cooking surface. A monitoring system is configured to monitor and control a cooking process on the cooking surface. The monitoring system includes at least one temperature sensor configured to sense a first temperature change at the cooking surface. A controller operatively coupled to the...