ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,917, issued on May 20, was assigned to Bigland Electric Appliance Co. Ltd. (Dongguan, China).

"Method for determining drying of food waste disposer" was invented by Zhimin Liu (Dongguan, China), Dongyuan Lin (Dongguan, China), Tiejiang Luo (Dongguan, China) and Shuo Huang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a drying of a food waste disposer contains steps of: saving a comparison table of a pressure temperature of a saturated water vapor in a control unit of the food waste disposer; starting drying process; and calculating. The method further contains a step of judging automatically, after calculat...