US Patent Issued to WHIRLPOOL on May 19 for "Real-time automated cooking cycles system using computer vision and deep learning" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,981, issued on May 19, was assigned to WHIRLPOOL Corp. (Benton Harbor, Mich.).

"Real-time automated cooking cycles system using computer vision and deep learning" was invented by Michael B. Daly (Watervliet, Mich.), Blake W. Ehrenbeck (Evanston, Ill.), Mohammad Haghighat (San Jose, Calif.), Seth Herndon (Osceola, Ind.), Bhargav M. Jain (Pune, India), Jason Y. Lee (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Saqib N. Shamsi (Dehradun, India), Sunil S. Shastri (New Panvel, India) and Bruce M. Wiatrak (Bolingbrook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A food class of a food item is recognized. A target doneness score is defined for the food item based on the...