ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,932, issued on Dec. 16.
"Automatic toaster" was invented by John Chilver (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A toaster comprising: a body configured to hold toastable foodstuff; one or more heating elements mounted to the body and configured to heat foodstuff held by the body; one or more acoustic sensors mounted to the body and configured to: pick up one or more sounds produced by the foodstuff when the foodstuff is heated by the heating elements; and generate an audio signal based on the sounds; and a controller configured to control the heating elements based at least in part on the audio signal generated by the acoustic senso...