US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 14 for "Cooking apparatus and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,640, issued on July 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Cooking apparatus and method of controlling the same" was invented by Keehwan Ka (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seongjoo Han (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yoonhee Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking apparatus including: a chamber; a camera configured to photograph a cooking object placed in the chamber; and a controller to be electrically connected to the camera, the controller configured to: control the camera to acquire a plurality of image frames of the cooking object while cooking is being performed; identify a ...