ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,481, issued on May 13, was assigned to B/E AEROSPACE INC. (Winston Salem, N.C.).
"Automated oven configuration" was invented by Hans Huijsing (IJsselstein UT, Netherlands) and Varun Raman (The Hague, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automated oven configuration. The system includes a meal card comprising a radio-frequency identification, RFID, tag that is configured to identify a type of meal, cooking/heating time and a temperature setting. The system further includes an oven comprising an RFID reader that is configured to read the RFID tag to determine the type of meal, cooking/heating time and the temperature...