ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,504, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).
"Heating cooking apparatus" was invented by Yu Shinohara (Sakai City, Japan), Shinji Asami (Sakai City, Japan) and Masahiro Nishijima (Sakai City, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heating cooking apparatus includes a housing, a lid portion, a rail member, and a slide member. The housing includes an opening opened toward a first direction, and an outer peripheral portion disposed on an outer periphery of the opening. The lid portion includes a plate-like member that opens and closes the opening. The rail member is disposed in the housing and extends in the...