ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,544, issued on May 12, was assigned to SharkNinja Operating LLC (Needham, Mass.).
"Cooking device with a control linkage" was invented by Simon Christopher Smith (Essex, Great Britain), Samuel Benjamin Baldry (Northhamptonshire, Great Britain), Christina J. Crowley (London) and Tong Cui (Suzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking device is provided. In one embodiment, the cooking device includes a base having a recessed cavity arranged in a top surface. The cooking device can also include a heating element arranged within the recessed cavity of the base. A first bracket can be positioned on the base, and a cooking plate ca...