ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,590, issued on March 17, was assigned to Shenzhen Hione Smart Kitchen Appliances Inc. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for recipe preparation based on ingredient-related data" was invented by Tian Qian (Shenzhen, China) and Yi Qian (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for recipe preparation based on ingredient-related data, the method includes: acquiring ingredient-related data of a target combination of ingredients uploaded by a user, the ingredient-related data comprising one or more of an ingredient type, a cooking process, a cooking cuisine, a finished cooking product and a cooking pe...