US Patent Issued to VERSUNI HOLDING on Dec. 23 for "Cooking phase identification" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,028, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to VERSUNI HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Cooking phase identification" was invented by Jingwei Tan (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking method includes receiving first image data and second image data corresponding to a view of a food item at a first time and at a second time of a cooking process, respectively. A perimeter of the food item visible in the view encloses a first area of the food item. A region of interest in the view that maps to a second area of the food item is selected, which is less than the first area. A phase of the cooking process is ident...