US Patent Issued to WHIRLPOOL on April 7 for "Cooking article detection system with differential detection coils" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,676, issued on April 7, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Cooking article detection system with differential detection coils" was invented by Salvatore Baldo (Varese, Italy), Mario Barbati (Sulmona, Italy), Andrea Gallivanoni (Sempione, Italy) and Silvio Sperone (Tortora, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooking article detection system for an induction cooktop having a first power-delivery induction coil includes a first detector coil overlying the first power-delivery induction coil and including a first conductive element revolving continuously around a centroid in a first tangential direction to defin...