ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,945, issued on March 4, was assigned to Airtender Works B.V. (Zoetermeer, Netherlands).

"Kitchen appliance apparatus" was invented by Dalibor Borjanin (Nieuwerkerk aan den IJssel, Netherlands), Robert Franciscus Van Der Hulst (Leiden, Netherlands) and Rui Medeiros Santos (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a kitchen appliance apparatus for using air in the kitchen, comprising a housing, wherein in the housing a pump system is provided which pump system comprises, a primary port (106), a secondary port (107), a single direction air pump (101) having an inlet (102) and an outlet (103); wherein the p...