ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,517, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Cook top, range hood and control methods thereof" was invented by Sook-young Ji (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jin-seok Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seung-hun Choi (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Dong-wook Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cook top includes an inputter configured to receive input of a user manipulation, and a cooker configured to heat a cooking device placed on the cook top. A communicator is configured to perform communication with a user terminal device and a range hood. A processor is configured to: co...