ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,915, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Cooking device for heating food by using a grill heater" was invented by Yunwon Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungkoo Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jihyung Ha (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangyong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyungah Chang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking device includes a main body, a cooking chamber inside the main body, a grill heater provided in an upper portion of the cooking chamber and including a plurality of straight sections arranged in parallel and a plurality of curved sections conne...