ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,235, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Cooking appliance with area temperature control" was invented by Jiho Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gyeongjin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taehun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kyumin Koh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sanggyun Ye (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking appliance includes a cooking chamber, a shelf disposed in the cooking chamber and comprising a plurality of cooking areas, a plurality of heaters mounted at one portion of the cooking chamber, spaced apart from one another to correspond to the plurality o...