ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,209, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Cooking device having multi-power structure" was invented by Namju Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taeho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongwook Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jungsuk Chu (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dongoh Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking device that includes a controller configured to, after being activated, control an operation of the cooking device; a communication unit configured to, after being activated, transmit data to a wireless power transmission device; a pickup coil configured to wi...